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Obituary: Bao Dai
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Annam was regarded as an exotic backwater in French Indo-China
when Bao Dai, who has just died in Paris, ascended the imperial
throne in Hue in 1925. Little could he have imagined at the time
that within a few years, his country, together with the rest of
Vietnam, was to become engulfed in a long series of wars. He was
just a boy of 12 who had been summoned home from school in France
to perform the many elaborate rites which accompanied the
installation of an Emperor of Annam.
On the...
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Obituary: Bao Dai
The Independent - London
; Annam was regarded as an exotic backwater in French Indo-China when Bao Dai, who has just died in Paris, ascended the imperial throne in Hue in 1925. Little could he have imagined at the time that within a few years, his country, together with the rest of Vietnam, was to become engulfed in a long
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Puppet ruler of Vietnam dies in exile
The Independent - London
; Paris (Reuter) - Vietnam's last Emperor Bao Dai, a symbolic ruler and puppet of the French colonial regime, has died in a military hospital in Paris after spending four decades in exile in France, officials said yesterday. He was 83. At first seen as a likely pioneer for Vietnamese independence
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Vision, power and agency: the ascent of Ngo Dinh Diem, 1945-54.
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
; ... departed into exile. With his young wife Tran Le Xuan--later to gain international ... alliance with a labour activist named Tran Quoc Bu'u, a veteran organiser who had ... Cao Dai leader Pham Cong Tac, General Tran Van Soai of the Hoa Hao sect, General ... French garrison at Dien Bien Phu. This news, ...
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Bao Dai, Former Emperor of Vietnam, Dies
The Washington Post
; Bao Dai, 83, a former emperor of Annam and Vietnam who spent more than 30 years contending with the demands of powerful foreign overlords and the political divisiveness of his own people before ending his life in exile, died July 31 at a military hospital in Paris. The cause of death was not
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Journal of Asian and African Studies
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LAST EMPEROR IN LINE THAT RULED VIETNAM FOR 150 YEARS DIES IN PARIS AT 83.(News/National/International)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; Byline: Philip Shenon The New York Times Bao Dai, the last emperor in a line that ruled Vietnam for a century and a half, died Thursday in a hospital in Paris. Bao, 83, had spent nearly half of his life in exile after abdicating in 1945. Despite the hopes of Vietnamese nationalists early in the
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International Herald Tribune
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Japan through Vietnamese Eyes (1905-1945).
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
; ... independence. The Cao Dai's Tran Quang Vinh had to invoke his ... broadcast through the Domei News Agency and through big posters ... Japanese military. The long awaited news of independence produced much ... in exile in Singapore such as Tran Van An, a leader of the Phuc ... This was finally formed with ...
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Fifty years ago.(in Vietnam, French misadventure)(Editorial)
Monthly Review
; The American people, by and large, are against colonialism and aggression and believe in the right of every country to manage its own affairs free from outside interference. Rarely have these simple principles been so clearly and grossly violated as in present United States policy toward
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1955: Diem Overthrows Dai
International Herald Tribune
; International Herald Tribune 05-02-2005 SAIGON: Premier Ngo Dinh Diem won control of the key National Army today [May 1] and put to flight absentee Emperor Bao Dai's commanding general in a sensational 24 hours of coup and counter-coup in South Viet Nam. Gen. Nguyen Van Vy, appointed by Bao Dai as
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