In the preface to Wang Jingwei: His Life, Ideas and Beliefs, now posted in its entirety on Oriental History Review’s weixin, Professor Wang Ke-wen wrote that Wang Jingwei’s entire life should not be summarized and concluded as traitorious. Instead, Wang Jingwei: His Life, Ideas and Beliefs offers an opportunity for readers to face history with honesty. Professor Wang’s preface is the … Read More
“Theory Becomes Reality: Confirming Wang Jingwei and Manzhao were the Same Person” by William Wong
In 2013, Dr. William Wong (retired head of the East Asian Library Collection at the University of California, Irvine) wrote an article in Mingpao Monthly proposing that Manzhao (the pseudonym used by the author of “Nanshe Shihua”) was, in fact, Wang Jingwei. Six years later, definitive evidence supporting Dr. Wong’s theory appeared with the publication of the handwritten manuscript in … Read More
“How Was a Devoted Revolutionary Couple Created?” by Hsu Yuming
Hsu Yuming, Associate Professor in the Department of History at National Dong Hwa University, presented his paper, “How Was a Devoted Revolutionary Couple Created? Wang Jingwei and Chen Bijun in Light of Newly Published Materials, with a Discussion of the Origins of the ‘Wang Faction,’” at the 13th International Conference on “Modern China and the New East Asian Order,” held … Read More