e required the restoration of legitimate dynastic rule, and that the Nguyễn dynasty, if freed from Frenc... nderstood, with remarkable clarity, that colonial rule depended not only on force but on the internalisa... logical and moral: the deepest damage that French rule had inflicted was the erosion of the national cha
ly childhood — and specifically that imaginative, rule-governed play (what he called "play with an imagi... which children voluntarily subordinate impulse to rule, act in accordance with an imagined rather than a
scholar-official background under French colonial rule. In 1926 his family sent him to France to study, ... titutions of higher learning that French colonial rule had established but which had been disrupted by t
wide protests demanding an end to French colonial rule; it stands as one of the largest spontaneous publ... or a democratic republican future grounded in the rule of law.
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