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A book about the ideals of the Orient and their philosophy in light of a modern Post-French Revolution world.

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Description	English: A book about the ideals of the Orient and their philosophy in light of a modern Post-French Revolution world.
Date	1931
Source	THE EAST ASIAN MODERN VIETNAM THAT’S WAITING FOR RESEARCHERS IN PARIS. - liamkelley. - September 18, 2020. - 2 Comments. (Lê Minh Khải's SEAsian History Blog). Eastern Ideals (Đông-phương lý-tưởng) by Nguyễn Duy Tinh. (Lê Minh Khải's SEAsian History Blog). So from Marr’s perspective, Nguyễn Duy Tinh was a “traditional moralist” who wanted to “return directly to the Neo-Confucian classics” and that he couldn’t understand what people were struggling for. To Marr, Nguyễn Duy Tinh was a member of an outdated and ultimately unimportant class of intellectuals. That the French Resident Superior gave his approval of Eastern Ideas was, to Marr, a clear sign of this, as obviously the French did not see a “traditional moralist” as a threat. But did Marr really understand this text correctly? Before I was able to actually read it, I had my doubts. For instance, the book is called Eastern Ideals, and both of those words (East – Đông phương; ideal – lý tưởng) are modern. They are Western concepts that entered East Asian languages beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century. So was Nguyễn Duy Tinh really a “traditional moralist”? Further, there is no such thing as “the Neo-Confucian classics.” There are a group of texts that can be referred to as “the Confucian classics,” and there were scholars in the Song Dynasty who wrote commentaries to some of those texts, and who developed ideas that we refer to as “Neo-Confucianism.” However there are no “Neo-Confucian classics.” (Lê Minh Khải's SEAsian History Blog). Eastern Ideals (Đông-phương lý-tưởng). This book contains 200 sayings from classical texts. It provides the original text in “Chinese” characters, transliterates each sayings into the Latin script (quốc ngữ), provides explanations in modern Vietnamese of what the transliterated words mean, and then it provides a modern Vietnamese translation of the saying. (Lê Minh Khải's SEAsian History Blog). East (phương đông), West (phương tây), ethics (luân lý), society (xã hội), century (thế kỷ), civilized (văn minh), competition (cạnh tranh), humans or mankind (loài người), earth (trái đất), and freedom (tự do) are all words and concepts that were new to the Vietnamese language at that time. (Lê Minh Khải's SEAsian History Blog). Marr refers to Nguyễn Duy Tinh as a “provincial literatus,” however the letter of endorsement from the French Resident Superior of Tonkin refers to him as the “secrétaire des Douanes et Régies à Laokay.” - Nguyễn Duy Tinh was thus not a provincial literatus or a “traditional moralist” who wanted “to return directly to the Neo-Confucian classics.” Instead, he was a modern, educated (probably tri-lingual) Vietnamese man who worked for the French colonial administration, and who’s somewhat vague language nonetheless suggests that he doesn’t seem to have held a high opinion of people who were opposing the French. (Lê Minh Khải's SEAsian History Blog). Digitized holdings of the Bibliothèque nationale de France I see so many books that are part of the East Asian popular cultural tradition of promoting “goodness” (thiện 善). (Lê Minh Khải's SEAsian History Blog).
Author	Nguyễn Duy Tinh (Unspecified date of death, but a book published in the 1950's mentions him in the past tense indicating that he likely expired over 50 (fifty) years ago).

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