Nguyễn Trường Tộ
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For Communist party official, see Nguyễn Trường Tô.
In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Nguyễn, but is often simplified to Nguyen in English-language text. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Tộ.
Nguyễn Trường Tộ (chữ Hán: 阮長祚, IPA: [ŋʷǐənˀ ʈɨ̂əŋ tôˀ]; 1830–1871) was a Roman Catholic scholar and reformer during the reign of Tự Đức of the Nguyễn dynasty, the last sovereign Emperor of Vietnam under which the French colonial forces colonized the country. Nguyễn Trường Tộ was best known for his advocacy of his modernisation of Vietnam, criticising the rigid Confucianism of the Huế court.[1]