09-16-2020, 08:50 AM
** 16-Sep-2020 World View: Ho Chi Minh's name
Thanks for pointing that out. Apparently he changed his name
several times:
Perhaps in my book research I'll find out why he made the change from
"Nguyen" to "Ho", both of which are highly significant names in
Vietnam's history. His extensive study of history means that the
change was almost certainly related to the Ho Dynasty and Tay-Son
rebellion.
(09-15-2020, 10:47 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: > A minor detail: Ho Chi Minh originally went by the name Nguyen
> Sinh Cung.
Thanks for pointing that out. Apparently he changed his name
several times:
Quote:> "The year 1925 also marked the founding of the Viet
> Nam Thanh Nien Cach Menh Dong Chi Hoi (Revolutionary Youth League)
> in Guangzhou by Ho Chi Minh. Born Nguyen Sinh Cung in Kim Lien
> village, Nghe An Province in May 1890, Ho was the son of Nguyen
> Sinh Sac (or Huy), a scholar from a poor peasant family. Following
> a common custom, Ho's father renamed him Nguyen Tat Thanh at about
> age ten. Ho was trained in the classical Confucian tradition and
> was sent to secondary school in Hue. After working for a short
> time as a teacher, he went to Saigon where he took a course in
> navigation and in 1911 joined the crew of a French ship. Working
> as a kitchen hand, Ho traveled to North America, Africa, and
> Europe. While in Paris from 1919-23, he took the name Nguyen Ai
> Quoc (Nguyen the Patriot). In 1919 he attempted to meet with
> United States President Woodrow Wilson at the Versailles Peace
> Conference in order to present a proposal for Vietnam's
> independence, but he was turned away and the proposal was never
> officially acknowledged. During his stay in Paris, Ho was greatly
> influenced by Marxist-Leninist literature, particularly Lenin's
> Theses on the National and Colonial Questions (1920), and in 1920
> he became a founding member of the French Communist Party. He
> read, wrote, and spoke widely on Indochina's problems before
> moving to Moscow in 1923 and attending the Fifth Congress of the
> Communist International (see Glossary), also called the Comintern,
> in 1924. In late 1924, Ho arrived in Guangzhou, where he spent the
> next two years training more than 200 Vietnamese cadres in
> revolutionary techniques. His course of instruction included study
> of Marxism-Leninism, Vietnamese and Asian revolutionary history,
> Asian leaders such as Gandhi and Sun Yat-sen, and the problem of
> organizing the masses. As a training manual, Ho used his own
> publication Duong Cach Menh (The Revolutionary Path), written in
> 1926 and considered his primer on revolution. Going by the name Ly
> Thuy, he formed an inner communist group, Thanh Nien Cong San Doan
> (Communist Youth League), within the larger Thanh Nien (Youth)
> organization. The major activity of Thanh Nien was the production
> of a journal, Thanh Nien, distributed clandestinely in Vietnam,
> Siam, and Laos, which introduced communist theory into the
> Vietnamese independence movement. Following Chiang Kai-shek's
> April 1927 coup and the subsequent suppression of the communists
> in southern China, Ho fled to Moscow."
> http://memory.loc.gov/master/frd/frdcstd...cima_0.pdf
Perhaps in my book research I'll find out why he made the change from
"Nguyen" to "Ho", both of which are highly significant names in
Vietnam's history. His extensive study of history means that the
change was almost certainly related to the Ho Dynasty and Tay-Son
rebellion.
