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Place of Birth: Hanoi, Vietnam
About Nguyễn Văn Vĩnh
- Nguy?n Van Vinh (1882–1936) was a Vietnamese journalist and translator of Western literature in colonial Vietnam.
- Together with François-Henri Schneider he founded the Ðông Duong t?p chí (1912) as the first successful Vietnamese qu?c ng? newspaper in Hanoi.
- The paper was technically owned by Schneider, since only a Frenchman could obtain a license to publish a newspaper.
- Its French sister paper was France-Indochine. Nguy?n Van Vinh was a 'non-communist' nationalist moderniser who sought to renew the Vietnamese culture by adopting Western ways of life.
- He rejected the political violence of the Restoration League, arguing in 1913 that the Vietnamese should 'use the cultural benefits of France to shut out seditious noises, so that the explosions caused by the rebels will not drown out the drums of civilization'.
- Vinh used the Indochina Review to criticize Vietnamese culture in a series of articles entitled 'Examining Our Defects' In the 1930s, he worked together with the French and translated numerous Western literary works such as La Fontaine’s Les Fables (1668) and Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels into qu?c ng? in an attempt to introduce the Vietnamese to Western culture. Nguy?n Van Vinh was also credited with devising the original set of rules for the Telex Vietnamese character encoding system.
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