From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Pankaj Mishra

Author:Pankaj Mishra [Mishra, Pankaj]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141970165
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2012-06-21T16:00:00+00:00

Like many others, Phan was thrilled by Japan’s victory over Russia in 1905. ‘Our minds’, he wrote, ‘may now contemplate a new, exquisite world.’ Later that same year he travelled to Japan, passing through Chinese political circles in Hong Kong and Shanghai. At the turn of the century, the first generation of Vietnamese nationalists like him had been riveted by the efforts of Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao. Liang’s writings were widely available across Vietnam. Reaching Japan, Phan Boi Chau immediately sought out Liang and held many conversations with him about international affairs. Liang spoke of the French railway in Yunnan province as ‘cancers in China’s stomach’, but advised the Vietnamese not to seek assistance from Japan until he had awakened his own people to the challenges of the international system.65 Inspired by Liang, Phan feverishly began writing what became the History of the Loss of Vietnam. Serialized by Liang in his newspaper and then published as a book, it would be read in the remotest villages of Vietnam, and become a seminal text for such second-generation Vietnamese anti-colonialists as Ho Chi Minh.

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