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Chu Minyi using a movie camera. On the left is Lin Baisheng. (Wikimedia Commons)An early member of the Tongmenghui, Chu Minyi first met Wang Jingwei in 1911, after the Wuchang Uprising and Wang’s release from prison. The following year, Chu and Wang continued their acquaintance and became close associates in France, where Chu pursued his education and established the Institut Franco Chinois … Read More

Lin Baisheng and Chu Minyi welcoming Wu Huawen to Nanjing in 1943. (Wikimedia Commons)A native of Xinyi, Guangdong, Lin Baisheng’s courtesy name was Shiquan. He studied at Lingnan University and the Moscow Sun Yat-sen University. After returning to China, he worked for Liao Zhongkai until Liao was assassinated, after which Lin became Wang Jingwei’s secretary. Later on, he managed propaganda … Read More

Zhou Fohai photographed with Wang Jingwei and Chen Gongbo. (Wikimedia Commons)A Chinese politician and second-in-command of Wang Jingwei’s Reorganized National Government (1940-1945), Zhou Fohai was a complex figure. Educated in Japan, credited as one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party, Zhou quit the Communist Party in 1924 to join the Guomindang, maintained strong ties with the party’s leftist … Read More

Che Gongbo in Japan (Wikimedia Commons)A Chinese politician with an extensive resumé both in and outside of government, Chen Gongbo was a founding member of the Chinese Communist Party, and left the CCP to join the leftist faction of the Guomindang and became a close associate of Wang Jingwei and a vocal critic of Chiang Kai-shek from the mid-1920s onward. … Read More