Cần Vương movement

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The Cần Vương movement was a late 19th-century Vietnamese royalist and anti-colonial campaign that sought to rally the population to restore the authority of the Nguyễn emperor and resist French rule.

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instanceOf Vietnamese independence movement
anti-colonial movement
royalist movement
aim expel French colonial forces from Vietnam
preserve Vietnamese sovereignty
restore authority of the Nguyễn emperor
causeOf widespread guerrilla warfare against French in central and northern Vietnam
country Vietnam
linked to: Viet Nam
describedAs royalist and anti-colonial campaign
describedIn Vietnamese historiography
endTime 1896
follows Treaty of Huế (1884)
hasEffect transition from royalist to modern nationalist resistance in Vietnam
weakening of traditional Confucian monarchy
hasPart Ba Đình uprising
linked to: Ba Đình Uprising

Bãi Sậy uprising
Hàm Nghi insurgency
linked to: Ba Đình Uprising

Hương Khê uprising
Yên Thế uprising
historicalPeriod late 19th century
ideology Confucian loyalism
Vietnamese nationalism
monarchism
inspired Phan Bội Châu’s Đông Du movement
early 20th-century anti-French resistance
later Vietnamese nationalist movements
languageOfName Vietnamese
location Annam
Central Vietnam
Northern Vietnam
linked to: northern Vietnam

Tonkin
motto Cần Vương
opposedBy Emperor Đồng Khánh’s pro-French court
French colonial army
linked to: French Union forces

Nguyễn dynasty collaborators
opposedTo French Third Republic
French colonial rule
participant Cao Thắng
Emperor Hàm Nghi
Nguyễn Thiện Thuật
Phan Bội Châu (early involvement and influence)
Phan Đình Phùng
Tôn Thất Thuyết
Tống Duy Tân
significantEvent Capture of Emperor Hàm Nghi
Hué court coup of 1885
Tôn Thất Thuyết’s attack on French garrison in Huế
startTime 1885
supportedBy Confucian scholar-gentry
local village militias
rural peasants
translationOfMotto Aid the King
usesScript chữ Hán
chữ Nôm

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Ba Đình Uprising relatedTo Cần Vương movement
Đinh Công Tráng movement Cần Vương movement