Story in Spiegel Online profiling Duong Van Ngo, a 77-year old trilingual resident of Saigon (excuse me, Ho Chi Minh City) who claims to be the last of the city’s public letter writers. In the old days, these fixtures outside post offices and ports would draft and sometimes translate letters and documents and even scribble [...]
Morning Tea: The last letter writer in Saigon…Non-Western history in the academy…Cultural Revolution diaries
March 12th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Tags: Chinese History · Life in Academia · morning tea
