The Chan's Great Continent is an eminently readable book, which wears its scholarship lightly.
The Chan 's Great Continent is an eminently readable book, which wears its scholarship lightly.
Almost oddly, Coogan isn't totally overshadowed by Jackie Chan.
For example, if you are Chinese American, you may give your child a Chinese first name with an American middle name, such as Chan Jason, or you may reverse it like Marie Lien.
They formed important settlements at various points on the Mekong, notably Luang Prabang, Wieng Chan (Vien-Tiane) Ubon and Bassac; and, heading inland as far as Korat on the one side and the Annamite watershed in the east, they drove out the less civilized Kha peoples, and even the Cambodians, as the Lao Pong Dam did on the west.
