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
The “Manzhao” in Wang Jingwei’s Poem
Professor Yeung Yuk Fung confirmed that Nanshe Shihua’s author, though credited as Manzhao, was Wang Jingwei in the preface he wrote for the volume Wang Jingwei Nanshe Poetry. In addition, he pointed out that the Manzhao for whom Wang wrote a poem as an inscription for a painting (see p. 96 in Wang Jingwei Poetry – Newly Edited of the … Read More
“Wang Jingwei & Modern China Book Series” by Ming Yan Cheng
Ming Yan Cheng recommended Wang Jingwei & Modern China in am730, the free daily Hong Kong newspaper on August 1, 2019. A seasoned media personality, Mr. Cheng was formerly chief editor of Apple Daily. In this article, Mr. Cheng mentioned the book launch seminar which was held at the Hong Kong Book Fair:At the end of the book fair, there is a … Read More