71 When Communist forces seized Phnom Penh, Saigon, and Vientiane
in 1975, they did so in an effort driven if not dictated by Hanoi.
72 In the mid-1970s, national integration began to develop, belatedly, across
the three new nation-states of former French Indochina. With “Reunification”
in Vietnam, the complicated history of attenuated imperial control of the
Cochinchinese frontier from Huй and the hybrid cultural, ethnic, and religious