IIAS Newsletter 44 Summer 2007

Postcards from the edge of empire: images and messages from French Indochina

Janet Hoskins

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

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