[The China Project] ‘An imperial railway failure’: France’s disastrous colonization project on the China-Vietnam border

<p>As many as 100,000 laborers died in the construction of the Kunming–Haiphong railway, which opened on April 1, 1910. The cost was not worth it.</p><p><a href="https://thechinaproject.com/2023/03/29/an-imperial-railway-failure-frances-disastrous-colonization-project/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Click here to read the article by James Carter.</a></p><p>Narrated by Kaiser Kuo.</p><p>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.</p>