Nguyễn Khắc Viện

Nguyễn Khắc Viện (Hương Sơn, 5 February 1913 – 10 May 1997) was a Vietnamese historian, literary critic, sometime dissident, and advocate of a Vietnamese health exercise dưỡng sinh similar to Yoga.
Viện was a party member formerly in charge of external propaganda and statements to foreign press. However his circulating of criticism of the government in the 1970s led to a ban on his writings till the early 1990s.