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Dalliance with Ho Chi Minh: Komatsu Kiyoshi in Paris and Hanoi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Geoffrey Gunn
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Having arrived in France in 1921, the young student of French, Komatsu Kiyoshi 小松, 清, made the acquaintance of Ho Chi Minh. While briefly noting Komatsu's career as litterateur through the French Popular Front years, this article brings to light the nature and depth of Komatsu's relationship with Ho Chi Minh, especially as revealed by French police documentation. Komatsu's links with communist and anarcho-syndicalist networks in Paris - Japanese included - and his surprising memoir of Ho Chi Minh published in a Hanoi newspaper in 1944 casts new light on both men and the relationship between Vietnam and Japan.

Keywords

Komatsu KiyoshiHo Chi MinhParisHanoianarcho-syndicalismanti-French nationalism
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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 19 , Issue 7 , April 2021 , e3
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