Education
As a boy he studied at the Lycée Albert Sarraut in Hanoi.
As a boy he studied at the Lycée Albert Sarraut in Hanoi.
From 1933 he was part of the new Tự Lực Văn Đoàn "Self-Strengthening Literary Group" with editor Nhất Linh and his novels were first serialized in the group"s magazines before being published as books Just as Nhất Linh was a penname ("One-Zero" 壹零) Giu briefly adopted the penname Nhị Linh ("Two-Zero" 貳零). He was captured by the Việt Minh in the Lạc Quần, Trực Ninh area, then executed at Cựa Gà on 17 November 1947.
In 1941, as a member of Nhat Linh"s Dai Viet Democratic Party (DVDC) he was arrested by the French, along with the artist Nguyễn Gia Trí.