Vietnam, Korea, and Taiwan under Colonial Rule

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Vietnam, Korea, and Taiwanunder Colonial Rule

• Modern East Asia
• Chapter 12

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I. Vietnam under the French
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Economic Policy

• French favored formation of large, preferably
  French, land holdings
• Colonial Economy
• Raw material
• Underdevelopment (discouraged local industry)
• Colonial Regime monopolies
• Opium, wine, salt

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Mixed Benefits

• Increase life expectancy
• Improved agriculture
• Population growth outstrips opportunities for
  raising living standards
• Infrastructure improvements to benefit France

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Social Change

• Conversion to Catholicism
• Increased tenancy
• Creation of new class system
• Bourgeoisie
• Urban intelligentsia
• Anti-Colonial Movements
• Led by urban intelligentsia
• Diverse viewpoints prevent coherent movement

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Education

• Education reform very slow
• Inhibited by reactionaries at Court
• By French inaction
• Small number of Vietnamese youth educated beyond
  primary level
• By 1936 only a dozen or so graduated from
  university per year
• Education in France

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New Stirrings of Opposition

• Opposition from beginnings
• Influenced by Chinese Reformers
• Reform through New Learning

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Phan Boi Chau

• Traveled to Japan in 1905
• Intense Nationalism violent uprisings against
  the French
• Travel East Movement

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Phan Chu Trinh

• Heeded call to travel east
• Politically moderate culturally radical
• Founded school in Hanoi
• Urged Vietnamese to cut hair as an act of
  defiance
• Arrested sentence commuted to house arrest.