Michel De Jaeghere: “Indochina, the empire of dreams”. Nothing predestined these territories to the community of destiny that was theirs under French domination.
Stretched over 1,650 km along the China Sea, the Empire of Annam was part of Chinese civilization. The administration of the country was entrusted to civil servants recruited through competitions based on knowledge of the classics. The Confucian conviction of its elites… This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 94% left to discover.