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Psychologists from nineteen countries in Asia and Oceania report on the expansion of western psychology in the region at both the academic and the professional levels. With its own network of associations, conferences, and journals, the comminity of psychologists in the East has braved new frontiers for the discipline, yet its achievements are litt
This biography focuses on Ho's early political career, from his emergence at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, to his organisation of the Viet Minh United Front at the start of the Second World War. Using previously untapped sources from Comintern and French intelligence archives, Sophie Quinn-Judge examines Ho's life in the light of two interconnecting themes - the origins and institutional development of the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP) and the impact on early Vietnamese communism of political developments in China and the Soviet Union.
Chapter 1: Am Sai Mu Dung Am Sai Mu Dung. Han Han's family home is on the outskirts of Son Duong city at four o'clock in the morning. In front of house 403, a family of three angry-looking people wearing pajamas stood in front of the door. The man holding the boy, about six or seven years old, remained silent and said nothing. The chubby woman next to her was wearing a floral-printed nightgown. Son Duong city was located in the north. The weather in late autumn at four o'clock in the morning was the coldest. "Open the door! Is anyone home? Open the door quickly!" The woman raised her hand and banged on the tightly closed door of house number 403.
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