Cường Để
| Cường Để 彊柢 |
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Prince Cường Để (left) with Phan Bội Châu, circa 1907.
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| Born |
Nguyễn Phước Đan 11 January 1882 |
| Died | 5 April 1951 (aged 69) Tokyo, Japan |
| Known for | Vietnamese revolutionary |
Prince Nguyễn Phước Đan (Chinese: 阮福單, 11 January 1882 - 5 April 1951), courtesy name Cường Để (彊柢), was an early 20th-century Vietnamese revolutionary who, along with Phan Bội Châu, unsuccessfully tried to liberate Vietnam from French colonial occupation.
Để was a royal relative of the Nguyễn dynasty, and, according to the rule of primogeniture, was the heir of the dynasty, directly issued from the line of first-born descendants of Emperor Gia Long and his son Prince Cảnh. He was officially an "external marquis" (Ky Ngoai Hau).
Prince Cường went in secret to Japan at the end of 1905, leaving a pregnant wife and two young sons in Indochina. He attended a military academy in the Kanda district of Tokyo, followed by Waseda University, where he learned to speak perfect, accentless Japanese. He also married a Japanese woman. While in Japan, he supported and became the figurehead for the Phong Trao Dong Du ("On the Way to the East" movement), led by the revolutionary Phan Bội Châu in support of Indochinese independence from France. The organization was encouraged by the victory of Japan over Russia in the Russo-Japanese War, and received financial support from Sun Yat-sen, Liang Qichao as well as Inukai Tsuyoshi and Kashiwabara Buntaro. Between 1905 and 1910, it sponsored some 200 Vietnamese to study in Japan.
However, after the Franco-Japanese Treaty of 1907, French colonial authorities applied diplomatic pressure against Japan to suppress the organization and many of its members were deported by 1910.
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