“Nanshe Shihua” Authorship: Mystery Solved by Liang Jiyong

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梁基永南社詩話

The fourth volume of Wang Jingwei & Modern China—Wang Jingwei Nanshe Shihua, is the first publication of the “Nanshe Shihua” manuscript handwritten by Wang Jingwei under the name “Manzhao.” The text was originally serialized in newspaper columns in Nanhua Ribao (1930-31) and again in Zhonghua Ribao (1934). After a close study of the visible markings and overwriting left on Wang’s … Read More

“Theory Becomes Reality: Confirming Wang Jingwei and Manzhao were the Same Person” by William Wong

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汪威廉南社詩話

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

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〈為曼昭題《江天笠屐圖》〉

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