Photographers Note
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This is how Kunming residents are actually making their lives after 55 years toward socialism.
While tracking the history of this city, I found an interested article about Ho Chi Minh in Kunming, to share with those who read my language [please use English version contributed by ngocson in "critiques". Thanks]:
Trong chuyến sang Cn Minh lần thứ nhất để tiếp xc với người Mỹ, vo năm 1942-1944, thng qua tướng Trương Pht Khu của chnh quyền Tưởng Giới Thạch, Hồ Ch Minh đ lm quen với một số sĩ quan Mỹ đang hoạt động ở Trung Quốc, nhờ chuyển tới Đại sứ Mỹ ở Trng Khnh yu cầu Đồng minh gip Việt Nam...
Cuối năm 1944, khi một my bay của khng qun Mỹ bị rơi tại một khu rừng gần thị x Cao Bằng trong lc đang bay trinh st qun Nhật tại Việt Nam, Trung y phi cng William Shaw đ được lực lượng tự vệ của Việt Minh cứu gip, đưa về căn cứ gặp Hồ Ch Minh. Thời gian ny, Nhật - Php thường bao vy chặt bin giới Việt - Trung, cho nn, việc nui dưỡng vin phi cng Mỹ ở giữa rừng Việt Bắc khng đơn giản. Tuy nhin, nhận thấy đy l điều kiện tốt để tranh thủ sự hợp tc của Mỹ, Hồ Ch Minh đch thn trao trung y phi cng cho tướng chỉ huy Qun đon Khng lực thứ 14 của Mỹ ở Cn Minh.
Sau khi Nhật đảo chnh Php (9/3/1945), mọi tin tức tnh bo của Mỹ ở Đng Dương bị cắt, tnh bo phần bị bắt, phần rt lui để thăm d, Bộ Tổng tham mưu Mỹ tại Trung Quốc buộc phải cho php OSS tuyển người Việt Nam. Trung y Mỹ Charles Fenn ngy 17/3/1945, đ tm đến gặp Hồ Ch Minh tại Cn Minh để bn về việc hợp tc giữa Việt Minh v qun Đồng minh.
Ngy 27/4/1945, trước khi rời Trung Quốc trở về Cao Bằng, tại một ngi lng nhỏ ở gần Tĩnh Ty, Hồ Ch Minh đ gặp Thiếu t Patti... (theo Đỗ Cng Định)
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Saule
(289) 2005-10-08 5:25
What are they doing?? Moving furniture on their bike rikshas? I think it's a great shot, because it show real China. These people might not be aware of the 8% annual GDP growth, and the new hi tech stuff in Shanghai. Thay are still riding their bike rikshas and struggling through every new day, like the majority of the Chinese.
Maybe, crop the top part a little bit? Thank you!
Saule.
PSYOPS
(0) 2005-10-08 10:21
Hi Thanh:
Following up your trip, I am lost here with the non-English note.
I understand that TE only allows certain length on the note, but maybe you or someone could use the "REPLY" space to give us a quick translation of my "missing" part.
Regarding the picture, at time you shot there was already dark, but I prefer to have the foreground dark agaisnt the "bright" background with government buildings. I saw that they were going uphill with heavy loads on the rickshaws...
Thanks.
Elduque
(624) 2005-10-09 3:12
Hi ! Thanks for sharing the "other" China with us. I also see very good colours and detail in the foreground but not so good in the back.
I also remain waiting for a translation of th vietnamese sentence.
Regards and thanks for your comments on my photos of Vietnam.
Antonio Elduque
NgocSon
(282) 2005-10-09 14:47
Mr. Thanh:
Following up your trip, I read the above two requests for English translation of your photographer's note.
I am not good in either English or pinyin, but I am posting here my humble try as a way to say thanks to your informative set of pictures. Please forgive me because I know this will contain unfit terms. I just try to help with a quick "explanation"... Sincerely.
ngocson
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ENGLISH EQUIVALENCE to author's note
During his first trip to Kunming to get in touch with the American between 1942-1945, Ho Chi Minh under arrangement of Gen. Zhang Fakui of the Chiang Kai-Sheks government has got to know some American officers on duty in Allied forces to Vietnam
At the end of 1944, Viet Minh cadres rescued a U.S. pilot, Lieutenant William Shaw, after he parachuted into the mountains near the provincial town of Cao Bằng. The pilot has been sent to Ho Chi Minh at his Pac Bo command post. This is the period when protection and feeding an American pilot amidst the virgin Việt Bắc jungle was not that simple while the French and the Japs frequently and strictly besieged the Sino-Vietnamese border. However, aware of this a good condition to angle for American cooperation, Ho has personally walked Shaw through the Japanese lines and across the border into China and delivered him to Commanding General of the 14th Air Forces Wings in Kunming.
After Japan took control of French Indochina (March 09, 1945), all American intelligence information for Indochina has been interrupted, agents have been caught, network withdrawn to reconnoiter, American Headquarters in China must allow OSS to employ Vietnamese.
On March 17, 1945, Ho met Charles Fenn at the Indochina Caf in Kunming to discuss about the Viet Minh and Allied forces cooperation.
On April 27, prior to departure from China, Ho Chi Minh met with the U.S. operative, Major Patti, in a little village near Xinxu [and they agreed on joint anti-Japanese actions. The U.S. dropped supplies behind the lines to Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh helped Americans downed behind Japanese lines].
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msuess
(625) 2005-10-16 3:18
Hi Thanh
impressive image. you captured those two guys and their expression very well.
regards,
Martin
Photo Information
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Copyright: Ngy Thanh (ngythanh)
(8492) - Genre: People
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2005-02-18
- Categories: Transportation
- Camera: Canon EOS 10D, Canon EF 24-70mm L, RAW @ ISO 800
- Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
- Date Submitted: 2005-10-08 4:49
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