Postcards from the Edge of Empire: Images and messages from French Indochina

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  • Janet Hoskins

Abstract

Postcards from French colonies are sold today as nostalgic evocations of a vanished world. The erotic, opium-infused images of Indochina have been particularly popular since the elegant fiction of exotic utopia they depict was carefully constructed to justify the colonial enteprise.

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