Hoang Dao

Hoàng Đạo (1906-1948), real name Nguyễn Tường Long, was an important essayist and fiction writer, associated with Tự Lực Văn Đoàn, or Self-Reliance literary group.

He was born in Hải Dương, went to Guangzhou, China in 1946, and died on a train between Shanghai and Guangzhou in 1948. One of Nhất Linh's brothers, he was the theoretician of the Self-Reliance group. He wrote Trước vành móng ngựa [The Defendant's Box] (1938), Mười điều tâm niệm [Ten Points to Ponder] (1939), and Con đường sáng [The Radiant Path] (1940).

Hai-Dang Phan started this entry.

Reference

• Nguyễn Đình Hòa. Vietnamese Literature: An Anthology (San Diego State University, 1998).

Hoàng Đạo online

• A selection of short stories
• "Phận đàn bà trong Đạo Khổng" ["The Fate of Women in Confucianism"], an article from 1938, reprinted on Da Màu
• An essay by Thụy Khuê