Nguyễn Khắc Viện

Nguyễn Khắc Viện (Hương Sơn, 5 February 1913 – 10 May 1997) was a Vietnamese historian, literary critic, sometime dissident, and advocate of a Vietnamese health exercise dưỡng sinh similar to Yoga.[1][2]

Viện was a party member formerly in charge of external propaganda and statements to foreign press.[3][4] However his circulating of criticism of the government in the 1970s[5] led to a ban on his writings till the early 1990s.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Jonathan D. London Education in Vietnam 2011 - Page 10 "... historian, literary critic, and dissident Nguyễn Khắc Viện decried Vietnamese Confucians' proclivities towards conservatism and fixation on individual self-improvement while ignoring institutional constraints, a view characteristic of prevailing ..."
  2. ↑ Marie-Carine Lall, Edward Vickers Education As a Political Tool in Asia 2009 Page 154 "Nguyễn Khắc Viện (1993) encouraged these images and ideas."
  3. ↑ Grace Ming-Hui Cheng "Culture for development and development for culture is the ...2002 - Page 245 "Nguyen Khac Vien was the party member formerly in charge of external propaganda, which refers to official accounts of events in Vietnam released to foreign countries."
  4. ↑ Peace courier World Peace Council 1978 - Volume 9 - Page 60 "... for discussions with the WPC Secretariat concerning the Sino-Kampuchean aggression against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Mr. Nguyen Khac Vien was accompanid by Mr. Nguyen Dinh Vinh of the Embassy of Vietnam in Sweden."
  5. ↑ Southeast Asian affairs Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 1983 Page 300 "... made mistakes have not been punished. "' At the same time that Nguyen Khac Vien was circulating his private letter, the Party was taking steps to clamp down on dissenters who were making their views known outside the official channels."
  6. ↑ Human Rights Watch World Report 1992 - Page 475 Human Rights Watch (Organization), Human Rights Watch "General Secretary Do Muoi met with numerous groups to assure them that the party welcomes divergent ideas, and the ban on writings by Phan Dinh Dieu and Nguyen Khac Vien was said to have been lifted. However, the government ..."


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