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Nguyn nh Chiu was a Vietnamese poet who was known for his nationalist and anticolonial writings against the French colonization of Cochinchina, the European name for the southern part of Vietnam.

Chiu was born in the southern province of Gia nh, the location of modern Saigon. He was of gentry parentage his father was a native of Tha ThinHu, near Hu but, during his service to the imperial government of Emperor Gia Long, he was posted south to serve under L Vn Duyt, the governor of the south. There, he took a second wife, who bore him four sons, one of whom was Chiu.

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