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Author Lessard, Micheline R., author

Title Human trafficking in colonial Vietnam / Micheline Lessard
Published London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 72
Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 72.
Contents That which fills our heart with bitterness: missionaries and the purchase of Vietnamese women and children -- The principal article of trade: military accounts of human trafficking in Tonkin during the pacification campaigns and beyond -- This odious traffic in Annamite children: French consuls and the victims of human trafficking -- These kidnappings are Injurious to our prestige: the French colonial administration and its inability to stem the tide of human trafficking in Indochina
Summary "Examining the widespread phenomenon of human trafficking in Vietnam during the period of French colonial rule, this book focuses on the practice of kidnapping or stealing Vietnamese women and children for sale in Chinese markets from the 1870s through to the 1940s"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 29, 2015)
Subject Human trafficking -- Vietnam -- History
Prostitution -- Vietnam -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Human trafficking
Prostitution
Social conditions
SUBJECT Vietnam -- Social conditions -- 1858-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2011003528
Subject Vietnam
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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