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Cholon (chōlôn`, Fr. shôlôN`), district and former city, since 1932 part of Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, city (1997 pop. 5,250,000), on the right bank of the Saigon River, a tributary of the Dong Nai, Vietnam.
..... Click the link for more information. , Vietnam; on the right bank of the Saigon River, a tributary of the Dong Nai. Cholon is the Chinese section of Ho Chi Minh City; it is connected to the city's left bank by road, rail, and canal waterways. It is an industrial center with many rice mills and factories. Founded c.1780 by Chinese immigrants seeking to escape the civil disorders of Annam, it became a busy trading port long before Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) was developed by the French. It is still largely Chinese, containing a large portion of Vietnam's entire Chinese population, despite the large exodus of ethnic Chinese as boat people boat people, term used to describe the Indochinese refugees who fled Communist rule after the Vietnam War (1975) in small boats and the many ethnic Chinese who left Vietnam similarly after China's invasion of Vietnam in 1979.
..... Click the link for more information. following the fall of South Vietnam and the 1979 conflict with China. Heavy fighting during the 1968 Tet offensive in the Vietnam War Vietnam War, conflict in Southeast Asia, primarily fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam.
..... Click the link for more information. severely damaged the district.

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This takes place in the sleazy district of Cholon every evening.

Using Riffaterre to rehabilitate The Lover by Brownlie, Siobhan / Literature-Film Quarterly

The family house still stands on a side street near Cholon, the old Chinese district, but that part of his life is gone forever.

Viet Q by Rompf, David / Harvard Review

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A resident of Cholon village waits for someone to buy her ducks.

Sharp shooters by Soldiers Magazine