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Phan Bi Chu was a pioneer of Vietnamese 20th century nationalism. In 1903, he formed a revolutionary organization called the Reformation Society . From 1905 to 1908, he lived in Japan where he wrote political tracts calling for the independence of Vietnam from French colonial rule. After being forced to leave Japan, he moved to China where he was influenced by Sun Yatsen. He formed a new group called the Vietnamese Restoration League , modeled after Sun Yatsens republican party. In 1925, French agents seized him in Shanghai. He was convicted of treason and spent the rest of his life under house arrest in Hu.

Phan was born as Phan Vn San in the village of Dan Nhiem, Nam Hoa commune, Nam n District of the northern central province of Ngh An. His father, Phan Vn Ph, descended from a poor family of scholars, who had always excelled academically. He spent his first three years in Sa Nam, his mothers village, before the family moved to another village, an Nhim, his fathers home village, also in Nam n District. Until Phan was five, his father was typically away from home, teaching in other villages, so his mother raised him and taught him to recite passages from the Classic of Poetry, from which he absorbed Confucian ethics and virtues.

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