Qualla: Phan Ngọc Hiển https://qualla.com/phan-ngoc-hien en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Phan Ngọc Hiển https://qualla.com/phan-ngoc-hien Phan Ngọc Hiển: Introduction https://qualla.com/phan-ngoc-hien/ The French administration in southern Vietnam thought it was burying a problem. A bright, difficult graduate of the teacher-training college had turned up on its watch list, so it sent him about as far from anywhere as the colony allowed: Rạch Gốc, a fishing settlement in the mangroves at the bottom of the Cà Mau peninsula, where the roads simply stopped and the tide did the rest. Phan Ngọc Hiển arrived in his early twenties. The commune that now covers Rạch Gốc and its neighbours carries his full name.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/d/8/phan-ngoc-hien-wp/w3d8-phan-ng-c-hi-n-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Phan Ngọc Hiển: The Blacklisted Schoolmaster https://qualla.com/phan-ngoc-hien/ He was born in 1910 near Cần Thơ, in what is today the Ninh Kiều ward of that city. Both his parents — Phan Văn Vinh and Trương Thị Cư — died when he was ten, and he was raised by an older brother and sister in a household with very little money. An uncle, Trương Quang Đẩu, scrap...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/d/8/phan-ngoc-hien-wp/w3d8-phan-ng-c-hi-n-seventy-pieces-in-a-single-year.mp3 0:06 3 full Phan Ngọc Hiển: Hòn Khoai, 13 December 1940 https://qualla.com/phan-ngoc-hien/ In June 1939 he was sent once more to the Rạch Gốc country, and from there he crossed to Hòn Khoai, the island group standing off the cape. What happened on 13 December 1940 was one strand of the wider Nam Kỳ uprising against French rule, and like the rest of it, it was over quic...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/d/8/phan-ngoc-hien-wp/w3d8-phan-ng-c-hi-n-h-n-khoai-13-december-1940.mp3 0:06 4 full Phan Ngọc Hiển: A Name Placed on the Map https://qualla.com/phan-ngoc-hien/ The lesson did not take. His name spread across the far south instead: onto a district, onto a main street in the provincial capital, onto two secondary schools, a middle school and a primary school. Then, on 16 June 2025, the National Assembly Standing Committee redrew the commu...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/d/8/phan-ngoc-hien-wp/w3d8-phan-ng-c-hi-n-a-name-placed-on-the-map.mp3 0:06 5 full Phan Ngọc Hiển: The Trail That Ended in the Mangroves https://qualla.com/phan-ngoc-hien/ One more hamlet on that list deserves a note. Vàm Lũng, on the commune's seaward flank, was the southern terminus of the sea route the north used to supply the war in the delta. A naval officer named Bông Văn Dĩa picked it over the wider, deeper alternatives at Bồ Đề and Rạch Gốc...

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