Jean Vanmai

Jean Vanmai was born on 3 August 1940 in Koumac, in the north of Grande Terre, to Tonkinese parents, his father having arrived in 1937 as an indentured worker. When his family was repatriated to North Vietnam in 1960, he stayed on the island, where he became a radio technician and then a shopkeeper in Nouméa. A co-founder of the Vietnamese Friendly Society in 1974, he sat in the territory's Congress from 1988 to 1995. Les Nouvelles calédoniennes present him as the author of several books on the Tonkinese indentured workers.

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• NovelChân Đăng: The Tonkinese of Caledonia in the Colonial EraChân ĐăngJean Vanmai · 1980Literature