Phan Thanh Giản
Phan Thanh Giản ( Hán Nôm : 潘 淸 簡 , born November 11, 1796 , † August 4, 1867 ) was a Vietnamese politician of the Nguyễn dynasty , historian, philosopher of Neoconfucianism and diplomat.
Life
His nickname was Lương Khê ( 梁溪 ).
Phanh Than Gian came from a family of humble ancestry in Vĩnh Long Province . In 1826 he was the first candidate from the Mekong to achieve traditional Confucian scholarship. He served as a diplomat at the court of the Qing Dynasty during the 1830s . At the court of Emperor Tự Đức he was one of the advocates of a diplomatic policy of concessions to the colonial power France, which was expanding in Indochina . On the Vietnamese side, he led the negotiations on the Treaty of Saigon in 1862 . He was Vietnam's ambassador to France from 1862 to 1863 and then governor of the remaining southern provinces of the Vietnamese Empire from 1864 to 1867.
When he could not stop the further annexation of the southern provinces of the country by the French colonial power through diplomatic activities, Gian resigned from his post as governor of the southern provinces and died by suicide. His sons joined the armed guerrilla warfare of the rural population against the colonial power.
Individual evidence
- ^ Keith Weller Taylor: A History of the Vietnamese , Cambridge, 2013, p. 450
- ↑ Pierre Brocheux, Daniel Hémery: Indochina - An Ambiguous Colonization 1858 - 1954 , Berkeley 2013, p. 27
Web links
- NGUYỄN PHÚ THỨ * PHAN THANH GIẢN (Vietnamese)
- Phan Thanh Gian (Vietnamese)
- Phan Thanh Gian (Vietnamese)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Phan Thanh Giản |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Phan Thanh Gian; 潘 淸 簡; Lương Khê |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Vietnamese politician, historian, neo-Confucianism philosopher and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1796 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th August 1867 |