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Nông Thị Xuân
Nông Thị Xuân (1932–1957) was a mistress (người tình) of Viet Minh leader (later North Vietnamese president) Ho Chi Minh, who mothered a child with Hồ and died in a vehicle accident shortly after Xuân was an ethnic Nùng from Cao Bằng Province. Historian William Duiker also mentioned this rumor, however, saying that the story is "just like fairy tales", because in the archives (both in the country and abroad), he never saw Ho Chi Minh or his relatives ever mentioned this story.Ho Chi Minh - A life. William J. Duiker. Hyperion 2000 p.480. Vũ Kỳ Ho Chi Minh's secretary (who was also mentioned as having a significant role in the story) in an interview in 2004 denied the story, saying that Vũ Thư Hiên was based on some unfounded rumors to fictitize this story. Relationship According to Vũ Thư Hiên in the book " Đêm giữa ban ngày", Nông Thị Xuân was chosen in 1955 to look after the health of uncle Hồ. Xuân and her sister named Vàng stayed at 66 H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viet Minh
The Việt Minh (; abbreviated from , chữ Nôm and Hán tự: ; french: Ligue pour l'indépendance du Viêt Nam, ) was a national independence coalition formed at Pác Bó by Hồ Chí Minh on 19 May 1941. Also known as the Việt Minh Front, it was created by the Indochinese Communist Party as a national united front to achieve the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The was previously formed by Hồ Học Lãm in Nanjing, China, at some point between August 1935 and early 1936, when Vietnamese nationalist parties formed an anti-imperialist united front. This organization soon lapsed into inactivity, only to be appropriated by the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP) and Hồ Chí Minh in 1941. The Việt Minh established itself as the only organized anti-French and anti-Japanese resistance group. The Việt Minh initially formed to seek independence for Vietnam from the French Empire. The United States supported France. When the Japanese occupation began, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai
Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai (1 November 1910 in Vinh, Annam – 28 August 1941 in Hóc Môn, Cochinchina) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and a leader of the Indochinese Communist Party during the 1930s. Early life and education Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai was born Nguyễn Thị Vịnh on 1 November 1910 in Vinh, Nghệ An province, Vietnam. Her father, Nguyễn Huy Bình, also known as Hàn Bình, was born in Hanoi. He had learnt French but, due to failing the civil service examinations, chose to work as a railway official in Vinh. Her mother, Đậu Thị Thư, was a petty shopkeeper from Đức Thọ, Hà Tĩnh province. Her father frequently permitted her to retain the banned documents in an upstairs room at the train station. When Minh Khai grew more engaged in her revolutionary activities, her mother, a petty shopkeeper, supported her financially on her frequent visits to different provinces. Revolutionary career In 1927, she co-founded the New Revolutionary Party of Vietnam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dương Thu Hương
Dương Thu Hương (born 1947) is a Vietnamese author and political dissident. Early life Born in 1947 in Thái Bình a province in northern Vietnam, Dương came of age just as the Vietnam War was turning violent. At the age of twenty, when she was a student at Vietnamese Ministry of Culture’s Arts College, Dương Thu Hương volunteered to serve in a women’s youth brigade on the front lines of "The War Against the Americans". Dương spent the next seven years of the war in the jungles and tunnels of ''Bình Trị Thiên'', the most heavily bombarded region of the war. Her mission was to "sing louder than the bombs" and to give theatrical performances for the North Vietnamese troops, but also to tend to the wounded, bury the dead, and accompany the soldiers along. She was one of three survivors out of the forty volunteers in that group. She was also at the front during China’s attacks on Vietnam in 1979 during the short-lived Sino-Vietnamese War. However, in the per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nông Đức Mạnh
Nông Đức Mạnh (; born 11 September 1940) is a Vietnamese politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the most powerful position in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, from 22 April 2001 to 19 January 2011. His parents were Tày peasants.Biography of Nông Đức Mạnh, the General Secretary of the CPV VNA, 22 April 2001 Nông Đức Mạnh was born in Cường Lợi, , [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zeng Xueming
Zeng Xueming (;Kong Keli (孔可立),(Ho Chi Minh and his Chinese Wife Zeng Xueming)武汉文史资料 (Wuhan Wenshi Ziliao) (Wuhan Cultural and Historical Data), January 2001. Wuhan, China. October 1905 – 14 November 1991), known in Vietnamese as Tăng Tuyết Minh, was a Chinese midwife who married Vietnamese communist leader Hồ Chí Minh. She was a Catholic from Guangzhou and married Hồ in October 1926. They lived together until April 1927, when Hồ fled China following an anti-communist coup. Despite several attempts to renew contact by both Zeng and Hồ, the couple never reunited. Zeng and Hồ were never legally divorced, nor was their marriage ever annulled. Her existence has never been acknowledged by the Vietnamese government. Biography Zeng was born into a Catholic family in Guangzhou in October 1905. She was the youngest daughter in a family of ten children, including seven girls. Her mother's surname was Liang (). Her father, a businessman from Meixian, Gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vũ Kỳ
Vũ Kỳ (26 September 1921–16 April 2005) was the personal secretary to Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh. He was also a former member in the National Assembly and the former director of the Ho Chi Minh Museum. Vũ Kỳ was born in 1921 at Thường Tín, Hà Nội. Vũ Kỳ obtained the position of personal secretary on 28 August 1945 after Ho Chi Minh had declared independence from France during the August Revolution, and remained until Ho Chi Minh 's death on 2 September 1969. Vũ Kỳ was born named Vũ Long Chuẩn and later renamed by Ho Chi Minh.Pierre Brocheux, Claire Duiker, ''Ho Chi Minh: a biography'', Cambridge University Press (2007), p.128 In 1952, Vũ Kỳ was made a full member of the Hanoi Party Committee and was with Ho Chi Minh, serving as his personal secretary, every day until his death. Later in a 1988 interview with National Geographic, Vũ Kỳ explained that in 1969, as Ho Chi Minh's health gradually become worse, Vũ Kỳ secretly sent three local Vietn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thái Nguyên
Thái Nguyên () is a city in Vietnam. It is the capital and largest city of Thái Nguyên Province. The city is listed as a first class city and is the ninth largest city in Vietnam. It has long been famous throughout Vietnam for its Tân Cương tea, among the most recognized Vietnamese tea regions. In 1959, it become the site of Vietnam's first steel mill, and is now home to a large and growing major regional university complex. History The city played an important role in Vietnam's struggles for independence during the French colonial era. The Thái Nguyên uprising in 1917 was the "largest and most destructive" anti-colonial rebellion in French Indochina between the Pacification of Tonkin in the 1880s and the Nghe-Tinh Revolt of 1930–31. In August 1917, Vietnamese prison guards mutinied at the Thai Nguyen Penitentiary, the largest one in the region. With the aid of the freed inmates – common criminals as well as political prisoners – and weapons captured f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chu Văn Tấn
Chu Văn Tấn (22 May 1909 – 1984 in Võ Nhai) was a Vietnamese general. He was a member of the 1st Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and Minister of Defense in the 1945 provisional cabinet of the DRV.David G. Marr David George Marr (born September 22, 1937) is an American/Australian historian specializing in the modern history of Vietnam. Marr was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of Henry George (an auditor) and Louise M. (a teacher; maiden name Brown). M ... Vietnam: State, War, and Revolution (1945–1946) 2013 p134 "Intriguingly, on 18 September 1945 it requested that one hundred ballots be printed for an election of Liberation Army senior oflicers.7O On 28 August, Chu Văn Tấn was named minister of defense in the provisional cabinet of the DRV, while .." References {{DEFAULTSORT:Chu, Van Tan 1909 births 1984 deaths Vietnamese generals Ministers of Defence of Vietnam Nùng people Members of the 1st Central Committee of the Indochines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vice President Of Vietnam
The Vice President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Phó Chủ tịch nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam), known as Deputy Chairman of the Council of State () from 1981 to 1992, is the deputy head of state of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The vice president is appointed on the recommendation of the president to the National Assembly. The president can also recommend the vice president's dismissal and resignation from office. Upon the president's recommendation, the vice president has to be approved by the National Assembly. The main duty of a vice president is to help the president in discharging his duties – in certain cases, the vice president can be empowered by the president to replace him in the discharge of some of his duties. If the president can't discharge of his duties, the vice president becomes acting president (Tôn Đức Thắng, Nguyễn Hữu Thọ and Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh were acting presidents for a short period). In c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
