Wang Jingwei & Modern China Series Managing editor Cindy Ho recently visited Nagoya, Japan, where her grandfather Wang Jingwei died on November 10, 1944. Details of Wang’s passing have been recounted in meticulous detail in Cloud, Smoke, Scattered Memories, the Memoir of Ho Mang Hang.
In this video, Cindy Ho highlights several of the most serious factual errors found in the recently published book Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times by Professor Zhiyi Yang, which is now available in English and Chinese. Zhiyi Yang is Professor of Sinology, University of Frankfurt, and President of the Board, Confucius Institute Frankfurt.
Disputing Yang’s assertion that Wang Jingwei asked his family and his associates not to publish his essays and speeches after his death, Cindy Ho shows how Yang twists the meaning of a key passage in the Mang Hang Ho memoir to justify her false conclusion. Cindy Ho also points out how Wang’s own oft-stated wishes counter Yang’s contention, and other reasons why Yang’s claim is not only baseless, but also illogical.
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I understand a scholar who wants to publish a book needs to come up with a new discovery. But this must be substantiated by credible evidence, not by misquoting source material. Otherwise, it does not do justice to the historical figure, or our own understanding of the past and the future.CINDY HO
