In the May 22, 2025 episode of “World in a Grasp,” host Chen Yongfeng, Director of the Interdisciplinary Japanese Regional Studies Center at Tunghai University, invited Wang Jingwei’s granddaughter Cindy Ho and Professor Eugene Chiu from Tunghai University’s History Department to discuss Wang Jingwei’s youth and the formation of his ideological thinking. Chen pointed out that we often praise the victors while paying less attention to the so-called “failed” side. Chen called for more young scholars to engage in Wang Jingwei research, starting from texts, historical facts, and the social context of the time to reexamine this marginalized yet important historical figure:
I am becoming more and more interested in Wang Jingwei because there are too many things related to China in Taiwan’s history or political history, especially Chiang Kai-shek’s coming to Taiwan was a decisive influence. So studying Wang Jingwei, who stood on the opposite side of Chiang Kai-shek, may give us a new understanding of Taiwan. If more people devote themselves to the study of Wang Jingwei, it will help to deal with the relationship between Taiwan and China, as well as many mysteries in China’s modern history.CHEN YONGFENG