Micheline Lessard

Human Trafficking in Colonial Vietnam

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781138848184
• ISBN-10: 1138848182
• Artikelnr.: 42463813

Autorenporträt

Micheline Lessard is Associate Professor of Southeast Asian History at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction 1."That Which Fills our Heart with
Bitterness": Missionaries and the Purchase of Vietnamese Women and Children
2. "The Principal Article of Trade": Military Accounts of Human Trafficking
in Tonkin during the Pacification Campaigns and Beyond 3. "This Odious
Traffic in Annamite Children": French Consuls and the Victims of Human
Trafficking 4."These Kidnappings are Injurious to our Prestige": The French
Colonial Administration and its Inability to Stem the Tide of Human
Trafficking in Indochina 5. Conclusion 6. Bibliography