Episode 6: Saigon 1 - The Saigon Post Office

The Saigon Post Office is one of the most famous building works in Saigon, carrying significant historical meaning and evidence of the development of Saigon urban society into Western models of urbanity (more specifically French). The repurposed post office reflects the intersectionality in the ways Saigoneers reflect the change in the city and is indicative of the change within the Vietnamese narrative. The post office seemingly lies within the intersection between “the old ways” versus “the...