Nguyễn Sơn

Nguyễn Sơn
Nguyễn Sơn
	Major General (China); Major General (North Vietnam)
Battles/wars	Chinese Civil War Guangzhou Uprising (1927); Long March (1934-1936); Order of Bayi (First Class); Order of Independence and Freedom (First Class); Order of Liberation (First Class)

Nguyễn Sơn (1 October 1908 – 21 October 1956), also known by his Chinese name Hong Shui (

Vietnam People's Army and the People's Liberation Army.^[5]

He married Lê Hằng Huân, a daughter of the writer

Hoàng Văn Chí

.

Early life

Nguyễn Sơn was born on 1 October 1908 in

Gia Lâm District in Hanoi. He was the son of Vũ Trường Xương. When he was five years old he began to learn French at a Catholic school in Hanoi. When Sơn was fourteen years old he passed the Hanoi Teachers College. He often organizes students from the School of Education and the Guardian School to fight against Westerners in other schools. His parents married him to Nguyễn Thị Giệm four years older than him. He pretended to drink alcohol to causing trouble with his father-in-law and to get rid of his older wife.^{[citation needed}

]

Nguyễn was sent to study in

Chen Yimin and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). After graduating in October 1926, Nguyễn followed Ho Chi Minh's instructions and continued to work at the Whampoa Military Academy, and joined the Kuomintang

.

Revolutionary career

On 12 April 1927,

"White Terror". In response, Nguyễn left the Kuomintang and officially joined the CCP in August 1927. In December 1927, he participated in the Guangzhou Uprising, and after its failure fled to Hong Kong. With the consent of Ye Jianying and Nie Rongzhen, Nguyễn and Ho Chi Minh went to Thailand

in order to organize overseas Vietnamese to join the revolution.

In 1928, he returned to China and joined the People's Liberation Army. In 1929, he held the position of company political commissar in the 47th Regiment, and commanded the company in battles near Dong River. During this time, he adopted the name Hong Shui.

He was the only foreign officer in the People's Liberation Army. He served as the regimental commissar, and political director of the 34th Division of the

Jiangxi Province

. At the end of 1932, he also participated in the establishment of the first troupe of the Red Army, and later became leader of the troupe.

In January 1934, at the Second National Congress of Delegates of the Chinese Soviet Republic, Nguyễn was elected a member of the Central Committee of the CCP and as an ethnic minority representative. Because the leftist line prevailed in the CCP, during the period 1933 to 1938, he was expelled from the CCP three times, only to have his membership restored.

In October 1934, he participated in the

Shaanxi Province

and Nguyễn was the only Vietnamese to have successfully completed the march.

In December 1935, he returned to Yan'an after being lost for many days. He was later admitted to Chinese Red Army University, where in listened to the lectures by Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai.

In July 1937, at the beginning of the

Wutai Mountains

. He was appointed Party Secretary of Dongye District and Head of the Propaganda Department of the Northeast Shanxi Party Committee.

References

^ "中国开国将军中唯一外籍将军:越南人洪水". China.com (in Chinese). 3 December 2009.
^ Cheng Guan Ang Vietnamese Communists' Relations with China and the Second ... 1997 "launching of its three-year economic plan (1958-1960), Chinese assistance remained considerable.47 On 21 October 1956, it was reported that Brigadier General Nguyen Son died of cancer. Nguyen Son was the former commander-in-chief ."
^ Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars Mark Philip Bradley, Marilyn B. Young - 2008 "... such as General Nguyen Son, an early Communist Party member who spent most of his career in China, where he ..."
^ Kim Ngoc Bao Ninh A World Transformed: The Politics of Culture in ... 2002 - Page 87 "Interzone 4, for example, was the dominant locale in the memories of most intellectuals of the anti-French period in large part because it was under the leadership of Gen. Nguyen San. Gen. Nguyen Son was a figure of mythic proportions even before the August Revolution because he was one of the few Vietnamese who had participated in the Long March with the Chinese Communist Party and managed to survive."
^ Trịnh Tố Long, "Có một vị tướng như thế", Tiền Phong, retrieved on 21 October 2014.

[1] "中国开国将军中唯一外籍将军:越南人洪水". China.com (in Chinese). 3 December 2009.

[2] Cheng Guan Ang Vietnamese Communists' Relations with China and the Second ... 1997 "launching of its three-year economic plan (1958-1960), Chinese assistance remained considerable.47 On 21 October 1956, it was reported that Brigadier General Nguyen Son died of cancer. Nguyen Son was the former commander-in-chief ."

[3] Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars Mark Philip Bradley, Marilyn B. Young - 2008 "... such as General Nguyen Son, an early Communist Party member who spent most of his career in China, where he ..."

[4] Kim Ngoc Bao Ninh A World Transformed: The Politics of Culture in ... 2002 - Page 87 "Interzone 4, for example, was the dominant locale in the memories of most intellectuals of the anti-French period in large part because it was under the leadership of Gen. Nguyen San. Gen. Nguyen Son was a figure of mythic proportions even before the August Revolution because he was one of the few Vietnamese who had participated in the Long March with the Chinese Communist Party and managed to survive."

[5] Trịnh Tố Long, "Có một vị tướng như thế", Tiền Phong, retrieved on 21 October 2014.

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