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Description	English: Definitions for new Chinese words introduced into the Vietnamese language (mostly from Japanese reformers of the Meiji Restoration) to convey European ideas, written in Latin script, Traditional Chinese characters, and French.
Date	1910s date QS:P,+1910-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
Source	DE-WESTERNIZING VIETNAMESE HISTORY. - liamkelley. - January 2, 2014. - No Comments. - I’ve said many times before that the most important period for understanding all of Vietnamese history is the one period that has been studied the least – the early twentieth century. At that time the Vietnamese worldview changed so radically and so completely that today very few Vietnamese realize how differently they think from their ancestors. (Lê Minh Khải's SEAsian History Blog). One way of gaining an understanding of the changes that took place at that time is by looking at language. When the journal Nam Phong started to be published in the late 1910s, it included a supplement that defined new words that had recently entered the Vietnamese language. - These words were created by using classical Chinese terms (and many of them were created by Japanese reformers in the 19th century) to translate terms in Western languages that did not have counterparts in East Asian languages. (Lê Minh Khải's SEAsian History Blog). The editors of the journal explained that some of the words might seem strange, but that after they had been used a few times they would become natural, just as words such as “civilization” (văn minh 文明) and “society” (xã hội 社會) had seemed strange a mere ten years before. - It is interesting to look at these lists of words. On the one hand, it is easy to see that some of these terms were new, like “nhân-quyền-tuyên-ngôn” for “Declaration of the Rights of Man (and of the Citizen)” (Déclaration des droits de l’homme (et du citoyen).). On the other hand, other terms seem so natural today that it is hard to imagine that they were new concepts a mere 100 years ago, such as “phong trào” for “a movement.”. (Lê Minh Khải's SEAsian History Blog). Another such word is “đồng hóa” for “assimilation.” I have read countless times in the writings of Vietnamese authors over the past 50 years of how “the Chinese” have always tried to “assimilate” (đồng hóa) “the Vietnamese.” Well if the term for this phenomenon did not exist until it was introduced from a Western language in the late-nineteenth or early-twentieth centuries into East Asian languages, then how do we know that this is what “the Chinese” tried to do?. (Lê Minh Khải's SEAsian History Blog).
Author	Nam Phong.

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