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
“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
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