Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences
China ruled what is now Vietnam for nearly a thousand years, influencing its religion, customs, art, and architecture. Coastal ports throughout Southeast Asia first developedin the first millennium CE as maritime trade routes expanded between China and India. Today, ethnic Chinese populations are found in all urban and trade centers of Vietnam.
This slideshow looks at waterway settlements in northern and coastal Vietnam where life is focused on fishing and trade and Chinese influence is heaviest.
Photographs by Margery Freeman · Text by Lorraine Aragon
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