Phan Chu Trinh was the Vietnamese version of Gandhi. He tried to end France's occupation of Vietnam using non-violent principles, and appealing to the democratic spirit in France.
He was sentenced to death by France in 1908, but was eventually pardoned because of his many admirers in France.
My girlfriend tells me that he is still studied these days in Vietnamese schools.
Today most major cities in Vietnam have streets named after him.
Source: Wikipedia
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>he is still studied these days in Vietnamese schools.
Students learned exactly one thing about him in Vietnamese schools: his name, which stands alongside people like Phan Bội Châu (nationalist movements figures). Go pry Vietnamese people further about what those people exactly did in more specific terms, if you want to see deer-in-the-headlights faces.
I suspect he's the Charlie Kirk of people who got revered posthumously by their own ilks despite having done nothing of note. The commies always lack revolutionary figures to bring up in historiography anyway, so naturally, his name became a thing.
As for Phan Bội Châu, whose name is (more) prominent, he basically led a movement which suggested people to go to Japan to study. Whatever the scrap they ever managed to glean in Japan, I sure don't know a single of. Also they more or less tried to beg Japan to liberate the country - this embarrassing tidbit is literally taught in schools as something important, maybe fuzzy history helped cover that.
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