How Did The Tay Son Rebellion Affect Society

“The Tay Son Revolt, led by three brothers and who overran North Vietnam from the years of 1786-87, these brothers altered the 18th-century Vietnamese political and social landscape.” (Dutton 2006) The Tyson brothers led an independent military force that ejected ruling families and divided Vietnamese territories then collapsed a 350-year-old Le Dynasty. This paper will talk about an event that affected every region of the country and every level of society. The Tay Son brothers were leaders of a revolution in 1771 that was initially local but then became a national movement known as the Tay Son Rebellion.

To better understand what was going on you need to know “this era was one of tremendous importance for the Vietnamese people, featuring southward demographic expansion as well as shifting economic patterns, growing engagement with Europeans, merchants, mercenaries, and missionaries, and rising popular discontent sparked and compounded by political and natural forces.” (Dutton 2006)

The Tay Son period has been described as an overdetermined communist history where the Tay Son peasants were being called heroic figures, committed to economic and social justice. They were determined to overcome the conceptual limitations that for so long constrained the peasants. The Tay Son leaders would work to legitimize their political authority, and begin to

Then by1771, Nguyen power came under attack in the Tay Son Rebellion. The Tay Son Brothers, a collective name for Nguyen Hue, Nguyen Nhac, and Nguyen Lu the name derived from their home village, Tay Son, Vietnam. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1998) These brothers were classified as “bandits” or as “rebels” (Dutton 2006) In a sense these brothers were like Robin Hood, their moto or main principal was "seize the property of the rich and distribute it to the poor." (Cima