- Originally named Wenjie, Ho Mang Hang was born in Zhongshan, Guangdong. A graduate of Jinling University, Department of Agriculture Economics, his life was closely tied to the tumultuous history of modern China during the Republican era.
Since his mother’s family had been active in the 1911 Revolution, Ho had been acquainted with Wang Jingwei and his family since he was a boy and was a classmate of the Wang children. In 1939, Ho married Wang Jingwei’s second child and eldest daughter Wang Wenxing, and became inseparable from the Wang family. As a result, Ho was present at pivotal moments in Wang’s career during the 1930s and 1940s, and was at Wang’s bedside on the day he died. Because of this association, after the end of the Second World War, Ho served two and a half years at Nanjing Tiger Bridge Prison.
Immediately upon his release, he left for Hong Kong in March 1948 and later took up a position as Laboratory Superintendent in the Botany Department at Hong Kong University. After retiring in 1980, he emigrated to the United States in 1984 and devoted his time to gathering and studying materials and documents written by and related to Wang Jingwei.
- In 2010, Ho co-founded the Wang Jingwei Irrevocable Trust with his wife. Without his dedication and effort, the six-volume Wang Jingwei & Modern China series would not have been possible. Ho’s work is included in each of the six volumes of the Wang Jingwei & Modern China series:
Wang Jingwei: His Life, Ideas and Beliefs
Wang Jingwei Poetry - Newly Edited Wang Jingwei Nanshe Poetry Nanjing Prison & Suzhou Prison Writings by Members of the Wang Jingwei Regime Cloud, Smoke, Scattered Memories, the Memoir of Ho Mang Hang
- Ho’s father, He Yucai (Xiufeng), was a carver and collector of seals. His mother, Li Peizhen (Lingshuang), was the daughter of a wealthy merchant family from Guangdong. Many members of the Li family participated in revolutionary activities at the end of the Qing Dynasty. After He Xiufeng and Li Lingshuang married, they met Wang Jingwei and Chen Bijun through Li’s sister Peishu, who also participated in the revolution. A close friendship between the Ho and Wang families soon developed, resulting in Ho Mang Hang to be invited while still a child to join the Wang family summer classical literature class taught by Qu Xiangbang. The other students included Wang’s daughter Wenxing and Li Zhongshi’s daughter Xiuying.
Later, Ho attended the Beijing Overseas Preparatory School, founded by Wu Zhihui, which prepared children to study overseas by supplementing their knowledge of Chinese culture, foreign languages, science and mathematics. His fellow students were mostly children of known figures in government during the early 1920s including Wang’s son Ying (later changed to Wenying) and daughter Xing (later changed to Wenxing), Ma Chaojun’s son Shaotang, Chen Jizu’s sons Guoqiang and Guoxin, Zhu Zhixin’s daughters Shi and Mei, Li Jichen’s daughter Xiaomei, Zou Lu’s son Yue, and others.
Beijing Overseas Preparatory School
In 1935, while Ho was attending Jinling University Wang Jingwei was attacked during the Sixth Plenum of the Fourth National Congress of Guomindang in Nanjing. Ho accompanied Chen Bijun to the hospital to visit the wounded Wang, and kept vigil with the other relatives. He called Wang “Fourth Uncle” and Chen “Fourth Aunt” and then “father” and “mother” after marrying Wenxing in 1939.
In 1936, when Wang left China for medical treatment, Chen, who stayed behind, sent Ho to Chenxi, Hunan to open an experimental forestry station for the development of tung oil. For Ho, who had always been fascinated by plants, this task could have become the project of a lifetime. But after purchasing the land, breaking ground, planting trees, and completing all preparatory work, the project came to a halt when war broke out. In the fall of 1937, classes stopped in Nanjing and Jinling University moved to Chengdu. Ho took the Zhongshan warship there with the Wang family to continue his studies. After the Wang’s family home was burnt down during the war, Ho participated in the planning of the new house with the architect Li Bi.
In December 1938, Chen Bijun asked the newly-graduated Ho, who was then working at Hechuan, to return to the Wang family in Chongqing. There, Wang gathered members of his family, his secretary Wang Qi (Wang’s nephew), Chen Changdao, Chen Guoqi (Chen Bijun’s nephew) and others, to announce his intentions to advocate for peace with the Japanese as a person out of office, while living overseas. Once that decision was made, he warned, there would be much danger and difficulty. He predicted that the family would be reviled by others who did not understand them and that life would no longer be peaceful from that point forward. If anyone wanted to leave, he would not stand in their way. Everyone decided to stay with Wang, regardless of how much difficulty there would be.
Ho left Chongqing for Hanoi via Kunming, accompanying Wang, Chen Bijun, Zeng Zhongming and others. On the 26th of February, 1939, Ho and Wenxing, who had known each other since childhood, became husband and wife. Members of the family and friends in Hanoi, as well as Mei Siping and Gao Zongwu, who came to see Wang from Hong Kong, attended the wedding. Ho and his new bride were present in the house when the Hanoi assassination attempt took place on March 20, 1939. Zeng Zhongming was fatally wonded and Ho donated his blood in an effort to save him.
The following reveals the close connection that developed between the Wang family and Ho Mang Hang. At birth, the six children of the Wangs had each been given a one-character birth name. These names (in birth order) were: Ying, Xing, Bin, Xun, Jing, and Ti. The Wang's eldest child and first son, Ying, married Tan Wensu. The Wang's second child and first daughter Xing married He Wenjie (Ho Mang Hang). But after their marriage, Chen Bijun decided that since both her daughter-in-law Tan Wensu and her new son-in-law He Wenjie both had “Wen” in their name, she would add “Wen” to the names of her own children to express the degree of intimacy that had developed among the children. For this reason, Ho’s new wife Wang Xing changed her name to Wang Wenxing.
- As for He Wenjie, Chen Bijun also suggested that he change his name to Mang Hang, to encourage him to be more determined and diligent. “Mang” which means “first among brothers and sisters” is also derived from Mencius (the most famous Chinese philosopher after Confucius), meaning “faithful, loyal, obedient, a member of the team.” Ho enjoyed his new name and seldom used his birth name Wenjie thereafter. Not only did his parents not object to the new name, Ho’s father carved several seals for his son using the new name given to him by Chen.
From my arrival at Nagoya on March 3rd until my return to Nanjing on November 12th, I never left Nagoya during those 254 days…HO MANG HANG
In the beginning of 1944, when Wang Jingwei went to Nagoya for medical treatment, Ho went with him and arranged accommodation and daily affairs of the Wang family and friends who accompanied him. After the first surgery at Nagoya, when Wang’s condition improved slightly, Ho arranged an outing to collect wild mushrooms as a respite from the sad and stressful atmosphere. Throughout Wang’s final 254 days at Nagoya, Ho remained at his side. Wang’s pain and determination, the hard work of the medical staff and the worry, hope and expectations of friends and family during this period left a deep impression on Ho.
Ho Mang Hang at Wang’s funeral, with his wife on the right
At the end of the war in 1945, Ho and his wife and young daughter, along with Chen Bijun and other associates — 16 persons in total — were arrested and imprisoned in Guangzhou. Because of Ho’s close relationship with Wang and Chen, he was sentenced to two and one-half years at Nanjing’s Tiger Bridge Prison. His fellow prisoners at included the writer Zhou Zuoren, Jiang Kanghu – the founder of the Chinese Socialist Party and former head of the Examination Yuan of the Nanjing Government — and several other notables. While in prison, Ho spent his time studying Song poetry. When Ho was released after serving his sentence, fellow prisoners wrote farewell poems for him.
After his release from prison in 1948, Ho and his family moved to Hong Kong where he held several positions as a teacher, editor, government worker and translator (a skill developed during his time at Tiger Bridge Prison, where he read many English novels.) With the help of his father, the family eked out a living in Hong Kong. In 1959 Ho began work as laboratory superintendent in the botany department at Hong Kong University. There, he could focus on his beloved plants and published a series of books in English and Chinese. In 1984, after his retirement in 1980, Ho emigrated to the United States and thereafter devoted all his energies to botanical painting, photography and collecting archival material to encourage others to learn more about the ideas, politics, philosophy and poetry of Wang Jingwei.
During retirement, after years of training in botany, Ho’s sensitive yet scholarly frame of mind enabled him to launch a second career as a botanical artist. Ho Mang Hang’s botanical watercolors combine the Western tradition of keen observation and attention to detail with Chinese Lingnan School romanticism, lyricism and symbolism. The combination of plant species in his works often contain hidden meanings. Ho Mang Hang’s watercolors have received several awards and have been exhibited at galleries in New York City and elsewhere, including a retrospective in 2008. In addition to painting, Ho Mang Hang’s photography has received many awards. He also employed his photographic skill to copy Wang Jingwei archival documents.
In 2010, Ho Mang Hang and his wife Wang Wenxing created the Wang Jingwei Irrevocable Trust to further the understanding of Wang Jingwei and the complexity of his time in “his own words” as they are revealed in his essays, speeches and poems.
Ho Mang Hang passed away on January 2, 2016.
- In a rare moment when Ho Mang Hang was comfortable sharing his personal opinion, he wrote:
The question of success and failure aside, what I consider more important is holding a sentiment of compassion without considering one’s reputation during life or after death, striving to the utmost until one’s dying day, treating death as an afterthought. This is enough to be considered great. Ever since his youth, when he devoted himself to the Revolution, Wang Jingwei consistently held onto this aspiration as an article of faith. One can see the evidence in his poetry, which reflects his inner thoughts and most heartfelt wishes.HO MANG HANG
This assessment and his decades-long relationship with Wang Jingwei motivated Ho Mang Hang to devote his time after retirement to further the understanding of the life and ideas of Wang Jingwei through his own words and those of his associates.Close family connections allowed Ho Mang Hang to become a frequent visitor to the Wang Jingwei household since childhood. After marrying Wang’s first daughter Wang Wenxing, he became a part of the family. As a son-in-law, Ho witnessed important historical events during Wang Jingwei’s life, even though he did not hold official government positions. After Wang’s Nanjing Government was established in 1940, Wang entrusted Ho to accompany Chen Bijun to Guangzhou to look after her, while she managed affairs there. As a member of the family, Ho, his wife and child, were arrested in 1945 after the end of the Wang Jingwei government, and was imprisoned for two and one-half years.
Ho’s unique insights were not only based on research or theory. It was Ho’s intimate relationship to Wang that compelled him to study Wang’s political writings, speeches, and poetry, in order to understand Wang’s political decisions and his work for the country from the point of view of an educated non-academic reader. Ho Mang Hang sought answers to the question: how could the person who was a father to him be so starkly different from the way he was portrayed by his critics?
Ho concluded that Wang Jingwei’s actions mirrored his words, and his inner world was no different from his external self. This conclusion echoes a comment that Wang made before his death. While his political thoughts had been fully expressed through the many speeches and essays written during his lifetime, Wang said, his true legacy and most heartfelt feelings are represented in his poetry, the collection of works known as Shuangzhaolou shicigao. Ho Mang Hang believed that only by studying Wang’s speeches, essays, and poetry – the forms that Wang considered his “true autobiography” – can we understand and appreciate Wang’s beliefs, ideals and emotions.
After Wang Jingwei’s death in 1944, when his own children and descendants of his associates turned away, unwilling to touch the scars of history, it was Ho Mang Hang who quietly worked so the rest of the world could learn about the true Wang Jingwei. Because of the label of hanjian (traitor to China), the task Ho Mang Hang took on was an enormous burden to carry.
Since the 1980s, aside from organizing his own collection of archival material of Wang Jingwei and Chen Bijun, Ho Mang Hang photocopied and hand copied poetry, letters, and other works handwritten by Wang and collected by Wang Jingwei’s associates.
Ho Mang Hang was generous toward serious scholars and writers, shared his personal experiences, and helped them with their Wang Jingwei research. Those who contacted him in this regard include: Cai Dejin, Wang Kewen, Lin Siyun, Kimiko Sakai, Tsen Chunglu, Zhao Wumian, Fuyuko Kamisaka, Gao Falin, Luo Jiurong, etc.
- In the published works of these and other concerned scholars, Ho Mang Hang’s name and contribution are never mentioned. From Ho’s point of view, it was more important to share his experiences with scholars. For this reason, he asked them not to cite this “unimportant person” as the source.
Ho Mang Hang considered his personal opinion unimportant and tried to avoid expressing his personal feelings; still, he would patiently write letters using a pen name to the editors of magazines or newspapers to correct common misconceptions and basic information, such as the number of Wang Jingwei’s children. Thanks to photocopies he made of these letters, we are now able to share Ho’s opinions in Wang Jingwei & Modern China.
Ho Mang Hang reviewing Wang Jingwei material
Ho Mang Hang did not seek attention, but chose to use his unique knowledge and skills to focus on authenticating, analyzing, and organizing the works Wang left behind, which remained unknown until the publication of Wang Jingwei & Modern China. Ho also translated works by other scholars into Chinese. For previously published works, he compiled Shuangzhaoloushici duhouji ("Reflections After Reading Shuangzhaolou Poetry"), recited in Cantonese and added his own explanations to a poem and essay that he considered to be most representative of Wang’s thoughts and feelings.
Ho Mang Hang donated bound copies of his works to libraries around the world for the purpose of providing reference for future scholars, so that they may gain a more complete understanding of Wang Jingwei, and share their knowledge with the general public. This is the genesis of Wang Jingwei & Modern China.
Ho Mang Hang continued to share his recollections, painstakingly identifying each document and each relic in his collection, deciphering the handwriting of people he knew. This enabled us to publish all this material in Wang Jingwei & Modern China.
He also continued to review his work, making revisions as he saw necessary. For this reason, the bound books he donated to libraries represent his best efforts to share Wang’s writings at the time, not his final work. Wang Jingwei & Modern China incorporates all of these revisions.
Before he passed away in 2016, Ho Mang Hang agreed to publish his work about Wang Jingwei in his own name. Whether or not he was an “unimportant person,” his firsthand experience and ideas are part of history. The historical record of Wang Jingwei and his associates compiled by Ho — a member of the Wang’s inner circle — reveals the complexity of this hidden, sometimes twisted, period of modern Chinese history. As eye-witnesses to history, Ho Mang Hang and other followers of Wang Jingwei provide valuable evidence for creation of a more complete history of Wang Jingwei and the Nanjing government. For this reason, the Wang Jingwei Irrevocable Trust attributes Ho Mang Hang’s work correctly; and all scholars and researchers who discover Ho’s work should do the same.
Ho Mang Hang’s work provides the foundation for the six-volume Wang Jingwei & Modern China series, listed below:
Wang Jingwei: His Life, Ideas and Beliefs
Ho Mang Mang saw an unfinished manuscript in the home of one of Fang Junbi’s sons in 1994. Based on handwriting and content, Ho determined that the document was a draft of Wang’s autobiography. Ho referred to the manuscript as “Draft” and made a transcription of it. This unfinished handwritten draft of Wang’s autobiography appears in our book on pages 202-351.
Using the “Draft,” other published works and his own personal recollections, Ho Mang Hang wrote Wang Jingwei: Modern China about Wang’s life, as told against the tumultuous history of Republican China.
Ho used as reference the works of Zhang Jiangcai, Cai Dejin, Jin Xiongbai, and other eye witnesses, including Chan Cheong-choo’s unpublished Memoirs of A Citizen of Early XX Century China. His preferred source material, however, was Wang Jingwei’s writings, including essays, letters, poetry, and the family genealogy record, which he had collected. He hand-bound copies of his work Wang Jingwei: Modern China and donated them to libraries around the world.
Wang Jingwei: His Life, Ideas and Beliefs, based on Wang Jingwei: Modern China, is the first publication of “Draft” with minor editorial changes, annotations and footnotes. The “Remembering Wang Jingwei” section includes excerpts from Ho Mang Hang’s correspondence and interviews. This book also uses Ho’s work on the Wang family genealogy, and the biographies of Wang’s associates were based on Ho Mang Hang’s selection.
Wang Jingwei’s Political Discourse: Selected Essays and Speeches
This July 2019 publication features a complete reproduction of 120 works mentioned in Wang Jingwei: His Life, Ideas and Beliefs, selected by Ho Mang Hang. Most of the source materials come from a set of books given to him by Fang Junbi (1895-1986):
To these volumes, Ho added his own collection of handwritten manuscripts, newspaper clippings, which he hand copied or photocopied into an 18-volume anthology of Wang’s political writings for donation to libraries (see below). These hand-bound books include Draft of Chronicle of Mr. Wang Jingwei, Chronicle of Mr. Wang Jingwei’s Political Writings and Speeches, Mr. Wang Jingwei Political Writings and Speeches, Addendum to Mr. Wang Jingwei’s Political Writings and Speeches (1 and 2), shown below. The photos on the right show some of Ho’s work-in-progess on Fan Junbi’s books.
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These hand-bound books were donated to libraries around the world, including the Library of Congress, Stanford University Library, the New York Public Library, Columbia University Library, and others. Even though the 18-volume anthology was organized and edited by Ho Mang Hang, libraries who received the works did not catalogue them in a uniform way and occasionally made mistakes, which makes the 18-volume set difficult to find today.
Ho Mang Hang also recited and added his own explanations to Wang’s essay “Determination for Revolution,” are available on YouTube in three parts: part 1, part 2, part 3.
- Wang Jingwei Poetry - Newly Edited
This book includes a complete scan of Wang’s daughter Wenxing’s personal copy of the poetry collection Wang Jingwei Shuangzhaolou shicigao, printed by her older brother in 1959 in Hong Kong. On the scans, we can see Ho Mang Hang’s and Wang Wenxing’s selections of essential readings. Displayed alongside the poems, are corresponding annotations and glossaries entitled Shuangzhaoloushici duhouji (“Reflections After Reading Shuangzhaolou Poetry”), which Ho compiled in the 1980’s.
In addition, there are 13 poems hand copied by Ho’s father and uncle, which Wang had not included in his collection. The 134 pages of poetry in Wang’s hand were gathered by Ho from other family members and descendants of Wang’s associates. Ho Mang Hang donated hand-bound copies of “Reflections After Reading Shuangzhaolou Poetry” to libraries around the world.
And earlier draft of “Reflections After Reading Shuangzhaolou Poetry”
Ho also recited in Cantonese and added his own explanations to “A recount of my vision and sentiments.”
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Wang Jingwei Poetry - Newly Edited features Ho Mang Hang’s annotations
Ho Mang Hang’s notes add background information on Wang’s poetry composition
- Wang Jingwei Nanshe Poetry
Wang Jingwei Nanshe Poetry, published in July 2019 is a complete reproduction of Wang’s original handwritten manuscript “Nanshe Shihua” by Wang Jingwei under the name “Manzhao.” The manuscript was kept by his oldest son, Wang Wenying, who later gave a copy to Ho Mang Hang.
A notable feature of Wang’s “Nanshe Shihua” is the large number of people who are mentioned. Ho Mang Hang complied a list of more than 200 names that appear in Wang’s manuscript. These and additional names that appear in the manuscript are listed in the book’s index.
Ho Mang Hang’s Nanshe Shihua
Before Wang Wenying gave Ho a copy of Wang’s manuscript, Ho had already hand-copied and compiled “Nanshe Shihua” into a bound book, and donated copies of it to libraries around the world. According to a note at the end of each copy, his source came from a copy made by an unidentified “Mr. Zhou,” and Zeng Xing had also kept clippings of Wang’s “Nanshe Shihua,” which was first published and serialized in the newspaper Nanhua Ribao in 1930-31.
Ho’s Nanshe Shihua is the first compilation of Wang’s “Nanshe Shihua” in book form. However, while it provided guidance for the transcription of Wang’s manuscript in our book Wang Jingwei Nanshe Shihua, Ho’s Nanshe Poetry is different from Wang’s handwritten manuscript. As corrections made on a draft copy indicates, he and other(s) had made editorial changes to the work, resulting in a version different from the later publication in Zhonghua Ribao in 1941. It is also not an exact copy of the Nanhua Ribao 1930-31 publication, which is no longer accessible. Even specialists have not seen this original publication.
Inside pages in Ho’s Nanshe Shihua
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Draft of Ho’s Nanshe Shihua
Since “Nanshe Shihua” was authored under the name “Manzhao” a small number of people have disputed its authorship, and claim that “Manzhao” was a person other than Wang, although no definitive evidence had come forth.
In 2000, when Stanford University’s Hoover Institution Curator of East Asian Collection Dr. Mark Tam thanked Ho Mang Hang for his gift of a copy of Ho’s Nanshe Shihua, he remarked that he was not surprised that the identity of “Manzhao” was finally confirmed to be Wang Jingwei, because no one else could have the ability to have written “Nanshe Shihua.”
Former head of University of California at Irvine’s East Asian library collection, Dr. William Wong published an article in Mingpao Monthly (December, 2013) entitled “Manzhao and Wang Jingwei were the Same Person — the Discovery of Nanshe Poetry Handwritten Manuscript,” after receiving a copy of Wang’s “Nanshe Shihua.” Wang Wenying had given the copy to his friend Dr. Wu Xingrong, who in turn gave it to his friend, Dr. Wong. Before our book Wang Jingwei Nanshe Poetry was published, we contacted Dr. Wong to confirm his copy of the manuscript was the same as ours, given to Ho Mang Hang by Wang Wenying. In November, 2019, Dr. Wong again published “Theory Becomes Reality: Confirming Wang Jingwei and Manzhao were the Same Person.”
In 2019, philologist Dr. Liang Jiyong published an article providing further evidence that Manzhao was Wang Jingwei. In 2020, editor and researcher Chu Onpui presented the differences in Ho Mang Hang’s copy of Nanshe Shihua from Wang’s handwritten manuscript in another academic journal.
- Prison Writings by Members
of the Wang Jingwei Regime
This book is the first publication of writings given to Ho Mang Hang by fellow inmates at Tiger Bridge Prison who were imprisoned after World War II because of their relationship to Wang Jingwei. These works were given to Ho when he left Tiger Bridge Prison for Hong Kong in March 1948. They include handwritten poetry, letters and other writings by poetry scholar Long Yusheng, Wang Jingwei’s widow Chen Bijun, along with 26 other fellow prisoners such as the writer Zhou Zuoren, Jiang Kanghu (the founder of the Chinese Socialist Party and former head of the Examination Yuan of the Nanjing Government) and several other notables.
Fellow prisoners gifted Ho Mang Hang with poetry upon his release
- Prison Writings by Members
of the Wang Jingwei Regime also features the complete reproduction of a copy of Jingjiexianshengji, with annotations by Long Yusheng and Wang Jingwei hand copied by Wang’s daughter Wang Wenxing.
While in prison, Ho spent his time studying Song poetry and reading English books, honing skills that he would put to later use as a translator. Using classical Chinese style, he wrote letters to his wife that were delivered inside the base of a Thermos bottle. Examples of these private letter are featured in the book, as well as a drawing made by Ho showing the prison interior, which appears on the book cover.
One of the Long Yusheng poetry compilations given to Ho Mang Hang for his birthday
- Cloud, Smoke, Scattered Memories, the
Memoir of Ho Mang Hang
As a close family member, Ho Mang Hang was a witness to critical events during Wang Jingwei’s lifetime. From the 1935 assassination attempt on Wang to the second assassination attempt in Hanoi in 1939, when Wang’s confidant and secretary was mistakenly killed, until the final days of Wang’s life, Ho was there by Wang’s side.
Cloud, Smoke, Scattered Memories, the Memoir of Ho Mang Hang recounts these important events, along with remembrances of his life from boyhood to maturity during the tumultuous Republican period of 20th century Chinese history. The book concludes with a “Questions and Answers” section, in which the author shares his memory of Wang the person and his political decisions.
An early draft from Ho Mang Hang’s Memoir
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A page from Ho’s manuscript
- Annotated Translations
Writings by and about Wang Jingwei in English have been published and distributed outside of China during his lifetime, offering fresh perspectives on this period of history. For the benefit of Chinese readers, Ho Mang Hang translated a number of these writings (some unpublished) and added his own annotations. Ho could not locate the Chinese versions of obscure works such as “The Scorched Earth Policy and Its Misapplication: a Collection of Documents” and “Wang Ching-wei’s Memorandum to the Japanese Government,” so he made the translations to ensure the writings would be preserved in Chinese. Now that we have located the Chinese original works, we have included them in Wang Jingwei’s Political Discourse: Selected Essays and Speeches.
Contact us if you wish to view the translations for research purposes.
- Listed below are works Ho Mang Hang translated into Chinese:
Wang, Ching-wei. The Scorched Earth Policy and Its Misapplication: a Collection of Documents. Shanghai: China Institute of International Affairs, 1939.
Han-sheng Lin, “Wang Ching-wei’s Memorandum to the Japanese Government, 1942.”
Han-sheng Lin, “Wang Ching-wei and Chinese Collaboration 1940-1945.” Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research, Fall 1972 (Volume 1, No. 1). Sonoma, CA: California State College
Boorman, Howard L. “Wang Ching-wei” In Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, Volume 3, edited by Howard L. Boorman, Richard C. Howard, (pp. 369-376). New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.
Boorman, Howard L. “Chien Pi-chün” In Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, Volume 1, edited by Howard L. Boorman, Richard C. Howard, (pp. 218-220). New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.
Ho Mang Hang hand-bound his work into books and donated copies to libraries. The books include Ho’s own compositions and compilations of Wang Jingwei’s published writings which Ho copied by hand. Although these books were all created by Ho Mang Hang, some libraries occasionally made mistakes when cataloguing them, which makes the books difficult to find today. Below is a list of all the libraries which hold books donated by Ho Mang Hang. Please contact us if you have any further information.
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《汪精衛現代中國》Wang Jingwei: Modern China
New York Public Library
Stanford University Libraries《自述及其他》Autobiography and Related Works
Harvard Yenching Library
UC Berkeley Libraries
University of Chicago Library《自述及其他（續）》Autobiography and Related Works 2
Harvard Yenching Library
University of Chicago Library《汪精衛先生政治論述》Mr. Wang Jingwei Political Writings and Speeches
Harvard Library
Library of Congress
New York Public Library
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《汪精衛先生政治論述補遺》Addendum to Mr. Wang Jingwei’s Political Writings and Speeches
New York Public Library
Stanford University Libraries《汪精衛先生政治論述年表》Chronicle of Mr. Wang Jingwei’s Political Writings and Speeches
Columbia University Libraries
Harvard Yenching Library Stanford University Libraries
Library of Congress
UC Berkeley Libraries
University of Chicago Library
Yale University Library《雙照樓詩詞藁讀後記》Reflections After Reading Shuangzhaolou Poetry
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《雙照樓詩詞藁》Shuangzhaolou Poetry
Bibliothèque Nationale
Harvard University Library
New York Public Library
UC Berkeley Libraries
UCLA Library
University of Macau Library
Yale University Library《南社詩話》Nanshe Shihua
Columbia University Libraries
HathiTrust Digital Library
Harvard Yenching Library
Library of Congress
New York Public Library
Oberlin College Libraries
Stanford University Libraries
University of British Columbia Library
University of Macau Library
UC Berkeley Libraries
University of Chicago Library
Yale University Library
Without Ho Mang Hang’s analyzing, hand copying, photocopying, studying and organizing, Wang Jingwei Irrevocable Trust and Chinatimes could not have published the series Wang Jingwei & Modern China. Without Ho Mang Hang’s discovering, collecting, safeguarding and authenticating, these firsthand material written by Wang Jingwei and associates would remain unknown.
In order to preserve Wang Jingwei’s writings and speeches, Ho Mang Hang devoted much time and effort compiling Wang’s most essential political writings, essays and poetry, including Mr. Ho’s own annotations and analysis, into 20 hand-written and hand-bound volumes, which Mr. Ho donated to libraries in Asia and North America in order to share Wang’s literary legacy with scholars.
All works by Ho Mang Hang is subject to copyright protection in many countries and places around the world in accordance with the relevant regulations of the Berne Convention. Upon his death in 2016, Ho Mang Hang bequeathed the copyright and all other rights to the Wang Jingwei Irrevocable Trust since his passing in 2016.
Ho Mang Hang’s works related to Wang Jingwei is included in the series Wang Jingwei & Modern China. No part of this copyrighted material may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, without the express written permission of the Wang Jingwei Irrevocable Trust. No part of Ho Mang Hang’s books found in any library collection may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, without the express written permission of the Wang Jingwei Irrevocable Trust. We reserve all our rights to take necessary actions to combat copyright and IP infringement and to safeguard our legitimate rights and interests. Recently, it has come to our attention of an unauthorized publication of the Trust's copyrighted materials. We have taken immediate actions to demand that the infringing party to cease publication and sale, and bear all legal consequences.
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