“ the challenge of neglect Saigon makes us believe our company is well worth reduced, that it’s just through the white lover’s touch that individuals can be conferred a larger humanity.” —Kai Cheng Thom
Whilst “East meets western” story is hundreds of years overdone, literary and movie record is important in the construction of Asian lady as subservient.
In 1887, Pierre Loti had written the novel Madame Chrysantheme about a French officer attending Japan to get a “dainty” and “delicate” woman “not much bigger than a doll.”