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and poet during the Later Lê dynasty warlord period. Phùng Khắc Khoan headed the diplomatic corps to China during the

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, during which he took part in a notable summit colloquy, conducted in

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, with the

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in 1597.

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Trần Văn Giáp Trần Văn Giáp (, 1902 - 25 November 1973) was a Vietnamese historian who wrote the first widely published histories of Buddhism in Vietnam in French. The two volumes, for Annam and Tonkin respectively were published in Paris in 1932. Giáp wa ...

, ''Tìm hiểu kho sách Hán Nôm'' (trọn bộ). Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội, 2003. *Trần Thị Băng Thanh (chủ biên), ''Văn học thế kỷ XV-XVII''. Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội, 2004. {{DEFAULTSORT:Phung, Khac Khoan 1528 births 1613 deaths People from Hanoi Vietnamese Confucianists Vietnamese male poets Lê dynasty officials Mạc dynasty 16th-century Vietnamese poets 16th-century Vietnamese philosophers 17th-century Vietnamese philosophers 16th-century Vietnamese people 16th-century diplomats Vietnamese diplomats