Go East! 1905 as a Turning Point for the Transnational History of Vietnamese Education

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ID13014604
AuthorsSara Legrandjacque (0000-0002-2931-2169, Sorbonne - Identités, Relations Internationales et Civilisations de l’Europe, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume8
Issue2
Pages101-114
Publication date2020-10-14
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTRaNS Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2051-364X • E-ISSN: 2051-3658
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/trn.2020.13
OpenAlexW3109113929
LanguageEN
References cited15

This paper discusses the year 1905 as an educational watershed in colonial Vietnam. It focuses on the development of student mobility that transcended colonial and imperial boundaries and gave new momentum to educational training on a transnational scale. In the mid-1900s, the anti-colonial mandarin Phan Bội Châu launched a new nationalist movement called Đông Du , meaning ‘Going East.’ It centred on sending young men to Japan via Hong Kong to train them as effective anti-French activists. These students came from Tonkin, Annam, and Cochinchina and enrolled in a variety of curricula. Although this initiative collapsed in the late 1900s, it remained a watershed. Regional mobility did not disappear afterwards but mostly redirected itself towards China. This paper brings a great diversity of material face-to-face, including governmental archives and biographies, and challenges the colonial-based vision of Vietnamese education by highlighting its regional dimension, from the early twentieth century to the outset of the Second World War

China · Colonialism · Curriculum · Face (sociological concept · Media studies · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Vietnamese · Gender Studies · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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