Nhất Linh

Nguyễn Tường Tam (Vietnamese pronunciation: [ŋwiən˦ˀ˥ tɨəŋ˨˩ taːm˧˧]; chữ Hán: 阮祥三 or 阮祥叄; Cẩm Giàng, Hải Dương 25 July 1906 – Saigon, 7 July 1963) better known by his pen-name Nhất Linh ([ɲət̚˧˦ lïŋ˧˧], 一灵, "One Spirit") was a Vietnamese writer, editor and publisher in colonial Hanoi.

His aim was to show that the French colonialists did not grant to the working classes in Vietnam the same rights they accorded to workers in France.

[citation needed] In addition to Nhất Linh, scholars have noted that the many Vietnamese westernized elites returning from France had been embracing the French “ideal of progress” as a lens to imagine Vietnam in a modern light of social equality and democracy.

[4] This faction soon merged with the larger Đại Việt Quốc Dân Đảng ("Great Viet Nationalist Party" DVQDD) and later this too merged into the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng ("Vietnamese Nationalist Party" VNQDD).

Tam committed suicide by ingesting cyanide, leaving a death note stating "I also will kill myself as a warning to those people who are trampling on all freedom", the "also" probably referring to Thich Quang Duc, the monk who had self-immolated in protest against Diem's persecution of Buddhism a month earlier.