HIST 115 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Vietnamese Alphabet, Ocean Liner
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A new awareness of the need to construct a modern vietnamese culture to replace the pre-colonial outmoded chinese-vietnamese culture came alongside this rising nationalism. The old confucian method, brought about by reforms of french education, was discarded and replaced by one based on western model. Slowly, the old written language gave way to a new system based on the romanization of the spoken language (called quoc ngu, or national language), based on the beautiful and cumbersome characters in china. Reforms, the rise of modern literature, sculpture and theatre. Western ideals like the notion of individual freedom, political and economic freedom and women"s rights began to win over increasing numbers of educated young vietnamese. By the mid-1920s this new political movement had started to shake the stability of. Popular demonstrations, often organized by disaffected students in big cities, stirred up. Secret political parties like the vnqdd (vietnamese nationalist party) have tried to organize a resistance against colony rule.
