Person1867 – 1940

Phan Bội Châu

Also called: Phan Boi Chau

Vietnamese nationalist who founded the Modernization Society, led the Đông Du (Go East) movement sending students to Japan and wrote the History of the Loss of Vietnam

A Confucian scholar who came first in the regional examination of 1900, he chose the independence struggle over an official career. When the Đông Du movement was shut down in Japan he moved to China and, inspired by the Xinhai Revolution, founded the Vietnam Restoration League in Guangzhou in 1912 with a republic as its goal. Seized by French police in Shanghai in 1925 and sentenced to life at hard labour, he was freed after protests across Vietnam but kept confined in Huế, under French watch, until his death.

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1905 – 1909Đông Du Movement in Vietnamleader
Phan Bội Châu sent young Vietnamese to study in Japan to train leaders against France. It ended when Japan came to terms with France.

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Liang Qichao1873 – 1929
Disciple of Kang Youwei in the Hundred Days’ Reform who, after the coup, spread new ideas from exile in Japan through his journals

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Imperialism and the Partition of the World1839 – 1914
From the Tanzimat to Sarajevo — seventy-five years in which the powers carved up West Asia, India, Southeast Asia, Africa and the Pacific, and the peoples there answered with reform and resistance