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Black Flags in Vietnam, the Story of a Chinese Intervention

By: Allen & Unwin Publishing

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Allen & Unwin)

Last Stocked on 8/13/2022

Product Info

Title
Black Flags in Vietnam, the Story of a Chinese Intervention
Category
Publish Year
1968
Pages
296
Dimensions
8.5x6x2"
NKG Part #
2147921958
Type
Hardcover

Description

In the 1850s, France, seeking a base for the political and commercial penetration of southern China, occupied Saigon and the Delta, hoping to navigate the River Mekong. This plan failed, and they turned instead to the Red River, which flows from China through northern Vietnam to Hanoi and the sea. China, weakened by years of domestic strife, seemed in no condition to protect her vassal. Then by a strange quirk of fortune, a band of Chinese freebooters, the Black Flags, who had crossed into Vietnam in search of pillage, defeated two French expeditions. In 1884, Peking went to war. The story of the ensuing conflict, strangely forgotten in the West, but present in every Chinese mind, is told here in vivid detail.