Phan Khôi

Phan Khôi was an intellectual leader who inspired a North Vietnamese variety of the Nhân Văn–Giai Phẩm affair, in which scholars were permitted to criticize the Communist regime, but for which he himself was ultimately persecuted by the Communist Party of Vietnam.

20 August 1887

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