Zeng Xueming

Zeng Xueming
Zeng Xueming
	Zeng c. 1920s
Born	Zeng Xueming; October 1905; Canton, Great Qing
Died	14 November 1991 (aged 86); Guangzhou, China
Other names	Tăng Tuyết Minh
Spouse	Hồ Chí Minh (m. 1926; died 1969)
Chinese name
Chinese	曾雪明
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zēng Xuěmíng
Wade–Giles	Tseng1 Hsüeh3-ming2
Yale Romanization	Dzēng Sywěmíng
IPA	[tsə́ŋ ɕyɤ̀mǐŋ]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Jāng Syut-mìhng
Jyutping	Zang1 Syut3-ming4
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabet	Tăng Tuyết Minh
Chữ Hán	曾雪明

Zeng Xueming (Chinese: 曾雪明;^[1] October 1905 – 14 November 1991), known in Vietnamese as Tăng Tuyết Minh, was a Chinese midwife. She was a Catholic from Guangzhou and it was claimed that she married Nguyễn Ái Quốc (a pseudonym used by Vietnamese communist leader Hồ Chí Minh) in October 1926. They lived together until April 1927, when Hồ fled China following an anti-communist coup. Despite several attempts to renew contact by both Zeng and Hồ, the couple never reunited. Zeng and Hồ were never legally divorced, nor was their marriage ever annulled. There is uncertainty of true happenings as some say it was a marriage of convenience to avoid Hồ's political persecution during his time in Kuomintang-ruled China, whilst others say the story was never true to begin with, and was only a hypothesis.^[2]^[3]

^ Kong Keli (孔可立), "胡志明和他的中国夫人曾雪明 Archived 23 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine (Ho Chi Minh and his Chinese Wife Zeng Xueming), 武汉文史资料 Archived 21 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine (Wuhan Wenshi Ziliao) (Wuhan Cultural and Historical Data), January 2001. Wuhan, China.
^ Hoài, Việt (20 May 2013). "Mỗi hiện vật là một câu chuyện bình dị về bác". Tuổi Trẻ (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 17 April 2023.
^ "Hồ Chí Minh - Những năm chưa biết đến". BBC News (in Vietnamese). 2 September 2003. Retrieved 17 April 2023.

[Kong-1] Kong Keli (孔可立), "胡志明和他的中国夫人曾雪明 Archived 23 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine (Ho Chi Minh and his Chinese Wife Zeng Xueming), 武汉文史资料 Archived 21 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine (Wuhan Wenshi Ziliao) (Wuhan Cultural and Historical Data), January 2001. Wuhan, China.

[:0-2] Hoài, Việt (20 May 2013). "Mỗi hiện vật là một câu chuyện bình dị về bác". Tuổi Trẻ (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 17 April 2023.

[3] "Hồ Chí Minh - Những năm chưa biết đến". BBC News (in Vietnamese). 2 September 2003. Retrieved 17 April 2023.

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