Phan Boi Chau street, Cua Nam ward, Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi, Vietnam.
It’s 450m long, from the end of Trang Thi, nearby Cua Nam, to Tran Hung Dao street, crossing Hai Ba Trung and Ly Thuong Kiet.
Another street with same name is located in Nguyen Trai ward, Ha Dong district, Hanoi, Vietnam.
It’s 100m long, from Bui Bang Doan to Tran Hung Dao, crossing Dinh Tien Hoang street.
Phan Boi Chau (1867 – 1940), born in Nghe An province. He was a pioneer of Vietnamese 20th century nationalism. In 1903, he formed a revolutionary organization called the “Reformation Society” (Duy Tan hoi). From 1905-1908, he lived in Japan where he wrote political tracts calling for the liberation of Vietnam from the French colonial regime. After being forced to leave Japan, he moved to China where he was influenced by Sun Yat-sen. He formed a new group called the “Vietnamese Restoration League” (Viet Nam Quang Phuc Hoi), modeled after Sun Yat-sen’s republican party. In 1925, French agents seized him in Shanghai. He was convicted of treason and spent the rest of his life under house arrest in Hue.
