Nguyen khac vien biography definition

Nguyễn Khắc Viện (5 February 1913 in Hương Sơn – 10 May 1997) was a Vietnamese historian, literary critic, sometime dissident, and advocate of a Vietnamese health exercise dưỡng sinh similar to Yoga.^[1][2]

Viện was a party member formerly in charge of external propaganda and statements to foreign press.^[3][4] However his circulating of criticism of the government in the 1980s^[5] led to a ban on his writings till the early 1990s.^[6]

Life

Khắc Viện first came to Paris, France, in 1937, a time where the capital was a hotbed for anti-imperialist political exiles.

He would stay in the country for twenty years, wherein he pursued an advanced degree in medicine, became a doctor and a writer.^[7]

He became a member of the French Communist Party in 1947, two years after Ho Chi Minh's declaration of Vietnamese independence.^[8] and worked on propaganda, campaigns, and discussions for Vi