Prince Charoon et al by Andrew Dalby

Author:Andrew Dalby [Dalby, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, Asia, Southeast Asia, Biography & Autobiography, Presidents & Heads of State, Military, World War I
ISBN: 9781907822377
Google: E1grDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Published: 2011-04-19T03:23:56+00:00

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Demands of the Vietnamese People, 1906–26

The Vietnamese ‘Claims’, in the Revendications du peuple annamite presented in Paris in 1919, were to be frustrated at the Peace Conference, which did not discuss the points raised, let alone make any moves towards self-determination for French Indochina. Resistance to French rule in Indochina had, however, been a long time coming. Of the three Vietnamese linked with the Revendications, the first to come to official notice had been Phan Chu Trinh. At the age of 13, in 1885, Trinh and his father, subjects of Annam, fought for the Emperor Hàm Nghi in his ill-fated rebellion against French overlordship. Trinh’s father was killed by fellow rebels, Hàm Nghi was eventually captured, deposed and exiled to Algeria, and Trinh returned home to find his house burned down and his family destitute. Ever since these horrific events he had followed his own path. A critical student of the old Chinese learning, he briefly served the Ministry of Rites at Huế; but by 1906 he was ready to speak out. Dedicated to peace, he had become utterly disillusioned with the downtrodden position of Annam under its threefold burden: a native civil service steeped in ancient learning, a godlike puppet emperor and an irresistible French ‘protectorate’. The old-established colony of Cochinchine was peaceful; the northern territory of Tonkin was still intermittently disturbed by warlords and ‘pirates’, heirs of the Pavillons Noirs who had opposed the French invasion.

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