OSCAR CHAPUIS is former French Merchant Marine Captain who served as maritime inspector for the French High Commissioner in Indochina and as a maritime expert at the Saigon Court of Appeals. He was Professor at the Vietnam Maritime College, and he acted as a speaker on Vietnamese culture at the Multicultural Mental Health Training Program (MMHTP) at the University of South Florida. His other books include A History of Vietnam (Greenwood, 1995).