Laos: Chronology


Figure 1.--Here we aural scene in Laos during 1959. It shows a country little touched by the outside world and clothing that does not show a lot of Western influence

We begin to see images from Laos in the late-19th century, primarily because of the French colonial effort and the creation of Indo-China. Laos contunues to be a land largely untouched by the outside world. We have not yet found many images. We see some French impact in Vientiane, but it few other areas. The country side through the 1950s was left largely in the same way the French found it. Even as World War II engulfed Southeast Asia, the fighting swirlded around Laos, but the country was little affected. We still see a country with little ouside influence in the 1950s as the Vietnam War overtook the area. This time Laos was very much affected as the country became an important part of the Ho Chi Minh trail into South Vietnam. Since the Vietnam War we begin to see some Western clothing in Laos, but both geography and politics have left it a country still largely untouched by the outside world.








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