Author
Phan Bội Châu
19/20th-century Vietnamese nationalist and revolutionary, 1867–1940
Their life
Phan Bội Châu, born on 26 December 1867, became a Vietnamese revolutionary who campaigned against French colonial rule. In 1904 he founded Duy Tân Hội, which translates as the Modernization Association, and launched the Đông Du movement. From 1905 to 1908 he lived in Japan, where he wrote political pamphlets urging Vietnam to break free from France.
He was later forced to leave Japan and settled in China. There he came under the influence of Sun Yat-sen, and his views moved from supporting a monarchy toward favoring democracy. In 1912 he dissolved Duy Tân Hội and created Việt Nam Quang Phục Hội, the Vietnamese Restoration League, which was modeled on Sun's republican party.
In 1925 French agents captured him in Shanghai. He was convicted of treason and spent the remainder of his life under house arrest in Huế, where he died on 29
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