Kevin Phan
Scholar and historian specializing in Vietnamese intellectual and educational history, featured as the episode's expert discussing the Tonkin (Đông Kinh Nghĩa Thục) Free School and its impact on modernization.
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Mar 21, 2026 • 54min
481 - Why Was The Tonkin School Dangerous? - Viet History Makers
Kevin Phan, scholar of Vietnamese intellectual and educational history, walks through the Tonkin Free School's bold 1907 experiment. The conversation covers abandoning Confucian rote-learning for science and hygiene. They examine Japan's influence, nation-building tactics like maps and songs, symbolic reforms such as cutting hair, and why the school was shut down amid colonial repression.
