Phan Thanh Giản had three sons, Phan Thanh Liêm, Phan Thanh Tong and Phan Thanh Hương, of which the first two organised an armed rebellion against the French soldiers who had colonised Vĩnh Long and were later captured and killed. Nowadays, Phan Thanh Giản is being venerated as a minor god among his family members and a few in southern Vietnam. Phan Thanh Giản Phan Thanh Giản (潘淸簡, November 11, 1796–1867) was a Grand Counsellor at the Nguyễn court in Vietnam. He led an embassy to France in 1863, and committed suicide when France completed the invasion of Southern Vietnam (Cochinchina) in 1867.
Nicholas Phan Institute of Chicago. and on the faculty of the DePaul University School of Music. Nicholas Phan website<br> Nicholas Phan blog<br> Musical Toronto.org Review: Nicholas Phan Embodies the Perfect Benjamin Britten Tenor<br> SF Chronicle: CD review: 'Winter Words,' Britten Nicholas Phan Nicholas Phan is a lyric tenor who has performed internationally with orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and others. Born to a Chinese Indonesian father and Greek American mother, He grew up in Ann Arbor, MI where he attended Greenhills School, then he