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Vietnam: An ethnic Chinese actress in Cholon, Saigon, French Cochinchina c. 1900.

Vietnam: An ethnic Chinese actress in Cholon, Saigon, French Cochinchina c. 1900.

Cholon or 'Big Market' in Vietnamese has long been the ethnic Chinese quarter of Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City, and remains so into the 21st century. In Vietnamese ethnic Chinese residents are called 'Hoa'.

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