Phan Bội Châu out his final years, his children and their families came to visit him, but never his wife. When she died, she instructed her children not to tell Phan so as to not distract him. Phan spent the first five years of the 20th century living in Huế and traveling the country. Phan drew up a three-step plan to get the French out of Vietnam. First, he would need to organize remnants of the Cần Vương movement and other sympathizers of the cause. Second, he would need to attain support from the Vietnamese imperial family and the bureaucracy, many of whom
Xi Xi to drastic infrastructural development. Xi Xi enjoyed travelling, and she had been to Eastern Europe, Turkey, Egypt, Greece, and, most frequently, mainland China. These places had given much inspiration to her writing. In 1983, ""United Daily News"" re-published Xi Xi's ""A Lady Like Me"" (《像我這樣的一個女子》) from ""Plain Leaf Literature"", and it was the first time her works were known to Taiwan people. And that passage won Xi Xi the Recommended Novella Prize, the highest prize in the United Daily News 8th Novel Prize. Xi Xi Xi Xi (, born 1938) is the pseudonym of the Chinese author and poet Zhang