Trần Tế Xương

Trần Tế Xương (Chinese: 陳濟昌; 5 September 1870 – 29 January 1907), also known by the pen name Tú Xương, was a Vietnamese poet and satirist. Quotes What earthly use are these Confucian graphs?Masters and doctors lie curled up and wilt.Why not take lessons and become a clerk?At night champagne, at break of day cow's milk! Poem 71 in An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems, trans. Huỳnh Sanh Thông (Yale University Press, 1996), 978-0300064100 Variant translation: What good are Chinese characters?All those Ph.D.'s are out of work.Much better to be a clerk for the French:You get milk in the morning and champagne at night. In: Understanding Vietnam by Neil L. Jamieson (University of California Press, 1995), 978-0520916586, p. 55 External links Category:1907 deaths Category:Poets from Vietnam