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comment by ButterflyEffect
ButterflyEffect  ·  7 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 8, 2025

Yeah it’s exactly the context of the stuff like this that I’m interested in:

    The General laughs and points out that they'd fought two wars with the Chinese since then and the Chinese were their biggest trading partner.

One of the hard parts about this is you can’t very well ask a Vietnamese person “hey, what books should I read” because you’ll largely get a blank look back. Because, you know, it’s what they lived!

I’ll have to checkout the bookshops around the Wing Luke Museum and the rest of Little Saigon. Will send you some photos of titles if anything stands out!