The front gate to Nanjing Central University. (Source: Nanjing University website)Bearing the label of a “treasonous traitor,” Wang Jingwei left Chongqing’s anti-Japanese camp and returned to Nanjing. One of his greatest contributions to the two hundred million fellow citizens was resuming school, providing young people in the occupied areas a place to study. School names, locations and numbers remained as before. … Read More
Wang Jingwei’s Associates & Family Members Continue to Preserve His Political Writings
News reports on the 1944 formation of the Editorial Committee to publish Wang Jingwei’s writingsWang Jingwei’s collection of essays and speeches comprises the most prescient and well reasoned political discourse created in China in the last century. Crowds would stand and cheer during his speeches because of what he said. From his early 20s, when Wang Jingwei first published his … Read More
What Did Wang Jingwei Aim to Achieve with His Government?
Wang Jingwei declares the establishment of the Reorganized National Government in Nanjing on March 30, 1940 (Wikimedia Commons)To this day, Wang Jingwei’s breakaway from Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government in Chongqing to form the Reorganized National Government (RNG) in Nanjing remains a heated topic. Academics and others around the world continue to debate the RNG’s success and failure; and most of … Read More