As we welcome 2020 and the Chinese New Year, we extend best wishes to our readers with this painting by Wang Jingwei’s daughter Wang Wenxun, dedicated to Ho Mang Hang’s parents. Thanks to your support, the six-volume Wang Jingwei & Modern China is not only selling well in Taiwan and Hong Kong, the series is a topic of great interest and … Read More
“Nanshe Shihua” Manuscript Published by Xie Ru
The January 2020 issue of Mingpao Monthly features a “New Book News” item introducing Wang Jingwei Nanshe Poetry and its first publication of Wang Jingwei’s handwritten manuscript, “Nanshe Shihua.” The author Xie Ru welcomes the complete presentation of every page of the manuscript in the book, which was published as part of the Wang Jingwei & Modern China series by China Times Publishing … Read More
“Wang Jingwei Poetry – Newly Edited: A Preliminary Exploration” by Chiu Kay Tang
Professor Chiu Kay Tang, who authored the preface of Wang Jingwei Poetry – Newly Edited, is the first scholar to analyze Wang Jingwei’s poetry collection Shuangzhaolou shicigao using Wang’s handwritten manuscripts that are presented in the book. Professor Tang discussed his work in a video interview produced by the Wang Jingwei Irrevocable Trust on July 9, 2019. Professor Tang further … Read More
“Nanshe Shihua” Authorship: Mystery Solved by Liang Jiyong
The fourth volume of Wang Jingwei & Modern China—Wang Jingwei Nanshe Shihua, is the first publication of the “Nanshe Shihua” manuscript handwritten by Wang Jingwei under the name “Manzhao.” The text was originally serialized in newspaper columns in Nanhua Ribao (1930-31) and again in Zhonghua Ribao (1934). After a close study of the visible markings and overwriting left on Wang’s … Read More
Wang Jingwei’s Pivotal Decision
On December 18, 1938, Wang Jingwei traveled from China to Hanoi with his family and a few close associates in order to advocate for peace with Japanese authorities as a person out of office while living overseas. Before leaving China, as Ho Mang Hang recalled, Wang’s nephew Wang Qi pleaded with him to reconsider. Even if the decision to negotiate … Read More
Preface to Wang Jingwei: His Life, Ideas and Beliefs by Wang Ke-wen
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