Educational Reform in Early-20th Century Vietnam
Emperor Thành Thái’s 1906 Promotion of Western Learning
On the 29th of May in 1906, Emperor Thành Thái issued regulations to reform the education curriculum for students in schools that were meant to
Emperor Thành Thái’s Educational Revolution
Read any book on modern Vietnamese history, and it will glorify a reformist school that enjoyed a brief existence in Hanoi in 1907 – the
Rethinking the History of Early-Twentieth-Century Vietnam
When the final palace exam was held in Huế in 1919, there were questions in both classical Chinese and modern Vietnamese (using the Latin script,
A Bilingual Introduction to Volcanoes in 1911 Vietnam
Phạm Quang Sán was a fascinating individual. In 1908 he translated into classical Chinese reformist ideas that were originally written in Vietnamese so that people
The Quốc Tử Giám and the Transformation of Traditional Learning in 1910s Vietnam
In 1909, reformist Nguyễn Dynasty scholar Phạm Quang Sán offered an example of a theoretical civil service exam question and answer that sought to demonstrate
Phạm Quang Sán’s Social Darwinist Call to Restore Ancient Ways
In reading writings from the world of the Nguyễn Dynasty in early twentieth century Vietnam the one thing that becomes clear is that there was
The Untold Story of the Self-Modernization of Vietnam’s Traditional Elite
In the previous post I introduced a book that Nguyễn Dynasty official and reformist scholar Phạm Quang Sán published in 1909 that sought to introduce
Phạm Quang Sán’s Attempt to Revolutionize the Civil Service Exams (Khoa Cử)
In 1909, a year after he had published a textbook that was aimed at modernizing elementary education, Nguyễn Dynasty official and reformist scholar Phạm Quang
The True Vietnamese Revolutionaries
I’ve long had a problem with the general narrative about the history of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Vietnam. Over and over you read in books
Wealth and Power, Mencius and 1910 Vietnam
In the nineteenth century there were Chinese scholars who realized that China needed to catch up with the technological advances of Western nations. This was
A 1910 Vietnamese Defense of the Yijing
The arrival in East Asia in the nineteenth century of people in steamships from the industrializing West was a shock to the educated elite there,
The Idea for a Mandarin Language in Early-20th-Century Vietnam
The civil service examination was of course an extremely important institution in Vietnamese history, but it is a topic that has yet to be researched
