Midway along the long, narrow country that is Vietnam, the now provincial capital of Huế was once the capital of the Nguyen dynasty, then the entire country until 1945, when the emperor abdicated and the communists took over. Though largely heavily damaged in the 1969 Tet offensive and long disdained by the regime as “feudal” and “reactionary,” these days Hue has been experiencing quite a renaissance... keep reading