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Cochinchina

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Cochinchina

 French Cochinchine

Region, southern Vietnam. Covering 30,000 sq mi (77,700 sq km), the area was a vassal of the Chinese empire and later part of the Khmer kingdom of Cambodia. Its capital, Saigon (see Ho Chi Minh City), was occupied by the French in 1859. It was made a French colony in 1867 and was combined with other French protectorates to form French Indochina in 1887. Incorporated into Vietnam in 1949, it was part of South Vietnam (1954–76) until the country was reunited. It includes the Mekong River delta, one of the greatest rice-producing regions in Asia.



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Li discusses Nguyen Hoang's correspondence with Tokugawa Ieyasu of Japan; the Japanese import of silk from Cochinchina; one Nguyen ruler's adoption of a Japanese merchant as his son, and another's marriage of his daughter to an ennobled Japanese trader; the Chinese replacement of the Japanese as traders when the Tokugawa rulers withdrew Japanese trade; the trade of Cochinchina junks with Manila and Batavia; and the production of Vietnamese sugar for export.
Fighting caused substantial damage to infrastructure and cropland in Burma and Java, but there and in Thailand and Cochinchina rice production decreased also because of a lack of transport and labor.
Fighting caused substantial damage to infrastructure and cropland in Burma and Java, but there and in Thailand and Cochinchina rice production decreased also because of a lack of transport and labor.
 
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