Cường Để
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| Cường Để | |
|---|---|
| Image:CuongDe.JPG | |
| Vietnamese name | |
| Quốc ngữ | Cường Để |
| Chữ nôm | 彊柢 |
Cường Để (Chữ nôm 彊柢 1882-1951) was an early 20th century Vietnamese revolutionary who, along with Phan Boi Chau unsuccessfully tried to liberate Vietnam from French colonial occupation. He was a minor royal relative of the Nguyen Dynasty, officially an "external marquis", who used his royal lineage to gain the support of wealthy patriots, particularly in the south of Vietnam, to finance his independence movement. He is famous for his role in the 1905 Đông Du (Go East) movement, which sent Vietnamese students to study in Japan, and for being the nominal leader of the 1904 Reformation Society (Duy Tân Hội) and the 1911 Vietnam Restoration Organisation (Việt Nam Quang Phục Hội). However he is a controversial figure due to his later support of the Japanese occupation of Vietnam during World War II, who he hoped would liberate Vietnam from the French, but who were actually a more brutal occupation force than the French.
[edit] External links
- Phan Bội Châu and the Dông-Du Movement edited by Vinh Sinh of Yale University (PDF).
