Saigon (HCMC)

In a months time I travel to Saigon, to the birthplace of my parents and where my grandparents grew up.

My family history traces through the site.

wikipedia says

• Signing of the Convention of Peking allowing the rights for Chinese to seek employment overseas British and French territories.
• The french allowed chinese because they would stimulate trade and industry
• Between the 1870s and 1890s, some 20,000 people settled in Cochinchina. This was % of the population at that time
• Another 600,000 arrived in the 1920s and 1930s because of the fighting and economic instability of the Chinese civil war
• chinese civil war started in 1927 and was fought between the KMT and communists
• The Chinese left through the open ports of Shantou, ???
• It has been calculated that some 2.5 million emigrants left Shantou in 1880–1909. Source
• During the second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45), the port was seriously damaged by Japanese bombardments in 1938 and was captured by the Japanese in 1939, remaining in their hands until 1945.
• World war II in the 1939-1945
• Japan invaded Indochina September 1940. Reached an agreement with vichy french
• March 1945 Japan took over complete control from Vichy France
• Vietnam Civil War
• Migration abroad, United States, Australia and Canada

• Grandmother father side – From Shantou to Saigon when young ~10 years old
• Grandfather father side
• Grandmother mother side – From Phnom Penh to Saigon when young???
• Grandmother father side

What was life in Vietnam like during that time. To be further continued.

What I want to do while in Saigon

1. Take pictures of Daily life to imagine what life would have been like
2. find historical and important places during the time