Zsari
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No matter we are a feudal state, a colonial state or a republic state later ...
It is important that the State of the Vietnamese.
Your 1947 is too late!
A colonial subject you mean? Sorry, the islands has been under French then Japanese control. Whoever owns that prior doesn't really matter anymore, legally speaking. The end of WWII is basically where all the present international legal system coming together, and 1947 is right on the mark, almost.
So, no Ming-Qing map to claim Spratly, sounds very un-Chinese.
One can certainly put forward historical map or claim, but that's more or less irrelevant at this point.