Hai Trieu (October 1, 1908 - August 6, 1954), real name Nguyen Khoa Van, was a Vietnamese journalist, Marxist theorist, literary critic.
He began to participate in newspaper writing under the pen name Nam Xich Tu (the Red South boy).
In 1930, he went to Ha Tinh to hold the national conference of the Indochinese Communist League, then he was arrested by the French and released.
After being released from prison, Nguyen Khoa Van opened Huong Giang bookstore in Hue and at the same time began writing for Dong Phuong newspaper under a new pseudonym - Hai Trieu.
He began to resonate through the debates of Phan Khoi in Dong Phuong newspapers, Modern women...: "Materialism or idealism", "Does our country have feudalism or not".
[1] Hai Trieu has a rather rich knowledge by studying and reading many books, newspapers, novels, theories of Marx, Engels, Bukharin, Henri Barbusse, Maxim Gorki, André Gide, Tolstoy, Quach Mat Nhuoc...
While keeping the pseudonym Nam Xich Tu, he wrote articles on The Later World War, Criticism of Tam Danism... and translated Karl Marx's Capital in the Unicorn and Youth Hong Ky newspapers.
In another article, Hai Trieu also refuted the opinion of his predecessor Phan Boi Chau about the meaning of the word literature.
After that, he continued to refute the opinions of Hoai Thanh and Thieu Son about Nguyen Cong Hoan's book Kep Tu Ben, he appreciated the value of the story's content, "opening a new era for the fourth dynasty.
Hai Trieu is the leader of the "Art for the sake of life", he appreciates the human value of works such as Kep Tu Ben, or Lan Khai's Lamentation, which he calls "reality depictions of society".
In addition to literary theory and criticism, he also wrote topical and political commentary, such as Who Burned the German Parliament, the World Economic Conference, the North Atlantic Treaty, and Nineteen Years of Architecture.
in the Soviet Union...[6] After the August Revolution, he also wrote many critical and theoretical articles, but his main activities were in charge of propaganda, culture, and intellectuals.