Trần Quý Cáp Explained

Trần Quý Cáp 陳季恰
Birth Name:	Trần Nghị
Birth Place:	Quảng Nam, Đại Nam
Death Place:	Khánh Hòa, Trung Kỳ
Nationality:	Vietnamese
Other Names:	Thai Xuyên
Movement:	Duy Tân Movement

Trần Quý Cáp (chữ Hán: 陳季恰, 1870–1908), born Trần Nghị, courtesy name Dã Hàng, Thích Phu, pen name Thai Xuyên, was a Vietnamese notable poet and anti-colonialist. He was one among several leading scholars in the including Phan Chu Trinh, and Huỳnh Thúc Kháng.^{[1] [2]}

In the anti tax-collection case in Trung Kỳ in 1908, he was arrested by the French colonialists and sentenced to death by waist cutting even though the authorities had no evidence.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Trần Quý Cáp (1870–1908) . dienban.quangnam.gov.vn . 9 March 2022.
2. Jonathan D London Education in Vietnam Page 10 2011 "The ultimately unsuccessful Cần Vương (Aid the King) Movement of 1885–89, for example, was coordinated by scholars such as Phan Đình Phung, Phan Chu Trinh, Phan Bội Châu, Trần Quy Cáp and Huỳnh Thúc Kháng, who sought to restore sovereign authority to the Nguyễn throne."
3. Web site: Trần Quý Cáp's poetry collection . thivien.net . 10 March 2022.