Politics1905 – 1909

Đông Du Movement in Vietnam

Also called: Go East movement, Dong Du movement

Phan Bội Châu sent young Vietnamese to study in Japan to train leaders against France. It ended when Japan came to terms with France.

Vietnamese students who went to Japan in the Đông Du movement
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In 1904 Phan Bội Châu founded the Modernization Society under the Nguyễn prince Cường Để, and in 1905 he went to Japan, victorious in the Russo-Japanese War, to seek help. There, at Liang Qichao’s urging, he wrote the History of the Loss of Vietnam, which was also translated in Korea and widely read during the patriotic enlightenment movement. He led the Đông Du ("Go East") movement, which sent some 200 young Vietnamese to study in Japan. But after signing an agreement with France in 1907, Japan expelled the students and Phan Bội Châu in 1908–1909, and the movement ended.

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States and rulers at the time: French Indochina
Japan — Emperor Meiji

People

Phan Bội Châu1867 – 1940
leader · Vietnamese nationalist who founded the Modernization Society, led the Đông Du (Go East) movement sending students to Japan and wrote the History of the Loss of Vietnam
Liang Qichao1873 – 1929
related figure · Disciple of Kang Youwei in the Hundred Days’ Reform who, after the coup, spread new ideas from exile in Japan through his journals

Before and after

Earlier: 1904 First Japan–Korea Agreement
Later: 1905 Eulsa Righteous Armies

Themes that include this event

Imperialism and the Partition of the World1839 – 1914
From the Tanzimat to Sarajevo — seventy-five years in which the powers carved up West Asia, India, Southeast Asia, Africa and the Pacific, and the peoples there answered with reform and resistance