{"id":487,"date":"2010-06-11T00:38:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T07:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dvan.org\/?p=487"},"modified":"2018-10-14T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T05:05:09","slug":"vietnamese-epic-the-budget-traveler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvan.org\/2010\/06\/vietnamese-epic-the-budget-traveler\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnamese Epic &amp; The Budget Traveler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Kim Van Kieu<\/em> is one of those stories that is so famous that\u00a0<em>The Lonely Planet Guidebook<\/em> will advise enterprising tourists to read it if they really want to move beyond the superficial world of noodles stalls, trinkets and bar-hopping. Supposedly, its influence is so immense that even illiterate peasants, working the emerald rice paddies, will recite a few lines, as they bend their backs in the kind of primordial labor that also makes great postcards.<\/p>\n<p>Through this literary endeavor, any budget traveler can truly begin to understand the Vietnamese people.\u00a0 But don\u2019t just listen to me or\u00a0<em>The Lonely Planet<\/em>; I\u2019ve had this point corroborated on the good authority of several drunken German tourists at that delightful watering hole in Saigon\u2014Apocalypse Now\u2014who swear by its merits as a touchstone of culture:\u00a0 \u201c<em>Kim Van Kieu<\/em> is a part of your literary DNA.\u201d\u00a0 Short of dating a local girl, reading a bootlegged photocopy book of the story of\u00a0<em>Kieu<\/em> is the best way to distinguish yourself from the crowd at the youth hostel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mekongmekong.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/500x500_d4fa30aaf44ee9ef8fc06eb2f7f14b24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Apocalypse Now\" src=\"http:\/\/mekongmekong.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/500x500_d4fa30aaf44ee9ef8fc06eb2f7f14b24.jpg?w=300&amp;h=194\" alt=\"Front Entrance of Apocalypse Now\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Kim Van Kieu<\/em> is a narrative poem that serves as an allegory of resistance.\u00a0 Put in layman\u2019s terms: the poem tells a story and we can read from the story how it is trying to tell, quite indirectly, another story.\u00a0 The other story is about a beset Vietnam as it has attempted to resist a thousand years of invasion.<\/p>\n<p>The backdrop of the story is the imprisonment of Kieu\u2019s brother and father.\u00a0 In order to save them, she marries herself off to a rich man who tricks her, turning her into a prostitute.\u00a0 Her virtuous self-sacrifice is paradoxical, for she becomes that which is diametrically opposed to the very essence of virtue.\u00a0 She becomes a whore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mekongmekong.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/kimvan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"kimvan\" src=\"http:\/\/mekongmekong.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/kimvan.jpg?w=208&amp;h=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The story can be read as a tale of the individual caught up within the machinations of the state, compelled to make sacrifices under unusual circumstances for the cause of nationalism.\u00a0 The heroine Kieu is the archetypal Vietnamese, forced into terribly unnatural acts out of desperation.\u00a0 The father and brother are the patriarchal authority, thwarted by injustice.\u00a0 The middle-aged man can be any of a series of imperial powers\u2013China, France, Japan and the United States\u2014who have interfered with a nubile young country\u2019s natural development.<\/p>\n<p>Vietnamese people appreciate the pathos of this type of irony, even if they do not tolerate it in real life.\u00a0 Prostitution is a growth industry in my old homeland and the statistics are staggering.\u00a0\u00a0 In my various visits to Vietnam during two years of traveling, I often saw the young sex workers come out at night and stand, backlit, at the doorways as pimps piss-pissed their wonders and virtues.\u00a0 Girls of this kind could usually be found lurking somewhere near that bar Apocalypse Now, which is a hotspot for tourists who seek a certain kind of adventure.<\/p>\n<p>I often wonder how many young girls, sold into prostitution in Vietnam are choosing to do so for heroic reasons.\u00a0 I often wonder how many people actually think that what they are doing is patriotic and self-sacrificing\u2014that it might serve a greater cause that will shake the very fabric of Vietnamese civilization to its core. But it doesn\u2019t seem like an appropriate question to ask.<\/p>\n<p>One night, I got drunk on Tiger Beer at Apocalypse Now and then wandered around the tourist quarter, looking for people to buttonhole.\u00a0 I asked this forbidden question to a nice, middle-aged man at a coffee shop.\u00a0 Set before him on an aluminum tray was a tall glass of ice coffee, an ashtray, a pack of Jet cigarettes and the daily newspaper.\u00a0 He was dressed in that classic Vietnamese style that always makes me feel immediately at ease:\u00a0 white button-down shirt, high-water black slacks and plastic flip flops.\u00a0 His hair, severely side-parted and blackly impeccable, glinted against the luminescence of the naked bulbs strung like gargantuan Christmas lights on steroids.\u00a0 He told me two things that immediately made me feel better.\u00a0 \u201cKim Van Kieu, she\u2019s not a real person.\u201d\u00a0 The other thing:\u00a0 \u201cThose girls, most of them we get from Laos.\u201d\u00a0 I guess I should have been relieved that the bulk of our prostitutes are not really of consequence because they come from across the border.\u00a0 Perhaps I was.<\/p>\n<p>It took me several days to get a dawning sense of the true injustice that lay behind this new knowledge.\u00a0 For what of the predicament of the many Western sex tourists who had been assiduously plugging away at\u00a0<em>Kim Van Kieu<\/em> and waiting for the moment when they could graduate to a real Vietnamese?\u00a0 Did they know they were getting the switcher-oo?\u00a0 All that work, all that intellectual development, all laid waste. 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