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Just like the famous Chinese Story of a Buddhist monk traveling to the west with his disciples encountering many obstacles.. Here is the story of my parents journey to the west and the hardships they faced... North Vietnam During the French rule of Vietnam between 1925 and 1933, nearly 600,000 Chinese emigrated to North Vietnam including my great grandparents and in the Second Sino-Japanese war that took place from 1937 to 1941, many Chinese left for South Vietnam but my gre

It was always a taboo in our family to talk about the passing of my parents’ firstborn, my eldest brother, so I grew up knowing very little about what actually happened. Haiphong, North Vietnam In early 1978, tensions between newly reunified Vietnam and China led to a mass exodus. Around 150,000 ethnic Chinese fled Northern Vietnam for China due to fears of war. In April and May 1978, my family fled to Guangxi, China, to a county called Ningming. At the time, my mother was al