HIST 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Haiphong, Vietnamese Alphabet, Ocean Liner
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The court at hue sought to reconcile the french over the next two decades in order to prevent further military conflict. The first period of anticolonial resistance was over by 1896. With the opening of the new century, a new generation of vietnamese started taking up the vietnamese independence cause unlike its predecessors, this new generation didn"t want to go back to the past. Through schooling or traveling abroad, they became familiar with the many benefits of western civilization and aspired to restore vietnamese independence, thus establishing a modern state based on the model of the. At first, radical members of the traditional confucian scholar-official class were the founders of this new nationalist movement, but soon a sense of patriotism began to affect young people in the growing towns of hanoi, Parallel to this rising nationalism came a new awareness of the need to construct a modern vietnamese culture to replace the pre-colonial outmoded chinese-vietnamese culture.
