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
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! 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.
 * What earthly use are these Confucian graphs?
 * Poem 71 in An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems, trans. Huỳnh Sanh Thông (Yale University Press, 1996), ISBN 978-0300064100
 * Variant translation:
 * What good are Chinese characters?
 * In: Understanding Vietnam by Neil L. Jamieson (University of California Press, 1995), ISBN 978-0520916586, p. 55