Why take a high-speed train to northern Laos when you can take three days to do pretty much the same trip by boat—never ...

Many families returned several times to experience an exotic round-the-world tour that lavishly reconstructed the architecture of France’s empire from Martinique to Indochina ... the French Communist ...

In 1945, France still had the world’s second-largest colonial empire, covering almost one-tenth of the Earth’s surface.

The president of the commemoration committee for the Thiaroye massacre in Senegal believes that African countries must regain ...

Book Review: 'Those Opulent Days' is a mystery drenched in cruelties of colonial French Indochina “Those Opulent Days,” the debut novel of Jacquie Pham, is both — and a grim coming-of-age ...

It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers. It’s also unusual that such a ...

It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers. It’s also unusual that such a ...

(Atlantic Monthly Press via AP) It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers. It’s ...

It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers. It’s also unusual that such a novel ...