French Indochina

Question 1

French interests

Answer 1

Religion, Politics and trade

Question 2

Religion

Answer 2

French missionaries from 16th c.

Question 3

Politics

Answer 3

Competition w Britain: British expansion and French exclusion in India

Question 4

Trade

Motivation for expansion

Answer 4

To make Saigon a new Singapore
Motivated by industrialisation in France (resources)
Mekong: Gateway into Chinese markets (later Tonkin)

Question 5

Cochinchina (south vietnam)

+ Cambodia and Mekong

Answer 5

Siege and conquest of saigon: 1859-61
Cambodia in 1863
Rest of Cochinchina in 1867
Mekong determined to be unuseful for trade in 1868

Question 6

Annam (central vietnam) and Tonkin (north)

+ Hanoi and a war

Answer 6

Hanoi: conquered in 1873
French-Chinese war: 1881-85
Tonkin: 1886
Annam: 1887

Question 7

Further French expansion

Outside vietnam

Answer 7

Laos in 1893 and parts of Siam in 1900s

Question 8

Siam

Answer 8

Technically the only non-colonised country in SEA
Buffer state between Britain and France
Competent kings who avoided colonisation by embracing westernisation/modernisation
Indirect colonisation: concession of territory and subject to unequal trade & treaties