Phan Dinh Phung

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Phan Đình Phùng 潘廷逢
Birthplace	Đông Thái, Đức Thọ, Hà Tĩnh, Vietnam
Died	Tuesday, January 21, 1896

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Phan Dinh Phung

Born 1847 in Ha Tinh Province, Central Vietnam; died December 1895. Vietnamese state figure, a leader of the can vuong uprising against the French colonialists.

A court censor by profession, Phan Dinh Phung in 1885 roused the peasants and civil servants of Huong Khe District of Nghe An Province to armed rebellion against the French colonialists. By 1893 the revolt had spread throughout most of Nghe An and the provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, and Thanh Hoa. The rebels formed an army, arranged for the manufacture of weapons, and inflicted a number of defeats on the French troops. Soon after the death of Phan Dinh Phung, the uprising was suppressed by French punitive forces.

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David Marr, for example, made the theme of "Vietnamese anticolonialism" and its transmission from nineteenth-century figures (such as Phan Dinh Phung) to twentieth-century ones (such as Phan Boi Chau and Ho Chi Minh) the leitmotif of his pioneering work on the genesis of modern Vietnamese nationalism.(2) One less-felicitous result of Western scholarship's interest in nineteenth-century resistance figures is its relative neglect of the "advocates of peace", who have been the subject of few articles and received no book-length treatment.

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Nguyen Truong To: a Catholic reformer at Emperor Tu-duc's court

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