The January 2020 issue of Mingpao Monthly features a “New Book News” item introducing Wang Jingwei Nanshe Poetry and its first publication of Wang Jingwei’s handwritten manuscript, “Nanshe Shihua.” The author Xie Ru welcomes the complete presentation of every page of the manuscript in the book, which was published as part of the Wang Jingwei & Modern China series by China Times Publishing … Read More
“Theory Becomes Reality: Confirming Wang Jingwei and Manzhao were the Same Person” by William Wong
In 2013, Dr. William Wong (retired head of the East Asian Library Collection at the University of California, Irvine) wrote an article in Mingpao Monthly proposing that Manzhao (the pseudonym used by the author of “Nanshe Shihua”) was, in fact, Wang Jingwei. Six years later, definitive evidence supporting Dr. Wong’s theory appeared with the publication of the handwritten manuscript in … Read More
The “Manzhao” in Wang Jingwei’s Poem
Professor Yeung Yuk Fung confirmed that Nanshe Shihua’s author, though credited as Manzhao, was Wang Jingwei in the preface he wrote for the volume Wang Jingwei Nanshe Poetry. In addition, he pointed out that the Manzhao for whom Wang wrote a poem as an inscription for a painting (see p. 96 in Wang Jingwei Poetry – Newly Edited of the … Read More