(i) Women in Vietnam traditionally enjoyed greater equality than in China. (ii) As the nationalist movement grew, the status of women emerged with a new image of womanhood. (iii) Writers and political thinkers began idealising women who rebelled against social norms. (iv) In the 1930's, a famous novel by Nhat Linh caused a scandal because it showed a woman leaving a forced marriage and marrying someone of her choice, who was involved in nationalist politics. (v) This rebellion marked the arrival of the new women in the Vietnamese society