Background
Wang Ching-wei was born on May 4, 1883 Sanshui, Guangdong, China.
1926
Wang Jingwei and Chiang Kai-Shek
Wang Jingwei in his twenties.
Former residence of Wang Jingwei in Nanjing.
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Wang Ching-wei was born on May 4, 1883 Sanshui, Guangdong, China.
Wang Ching-wei was a brilliant student in traditional Chinese subjects. In 1903 he passed the first civil service examination and won a government scholarship to Japan. He earned a degree at Tokyo Law College and was a founding member of a revolutionary association, the T'ung Meng Hui. Later he left for France to further his education.
In 1917 Wang Ching-wei, recently back from France, joined Sun Yat-sen, who had become dissatisfied with the warlord regimes dominating China after 1911 and was trying to organize a new revolutionary party. For the next seven years, Wang Ching-wei served as Sun’s personal assistant and was one of the major officials in Sun’s new Nationalist Party (Kuomintang). Sun died in 1925 just as the Nationalist armies were ready to embark on their Northern Expedition to liquidate the warlords and unite China. Wang Ching-wei became the new chairman of the national government, but as the Northern Expedition progressed successfully, Chiang Kai-shek, who controlled the Nationalist army, came to be favoured by right-wing members of the party. These members finally formed their own regime in the South China city of Nanjing, while the left wing, in alliance with the communists, formed a regime headed by Wang in the central China city of Wuhan. Wang Ching-wei, however, found it increasingly difficult to cooperate with the communists, and in July 1927 he purged them. Most of the left wing of the Nationalist Party rejoined Chiang, who held the dominant military power.
Wang Ching-wei continued to lead an opposition movement to Chiang until February 1932, when the two men were reconciled by a settlement in which he became president of the Nationalist Party while Chiang continued to head the military. War erupted with Japan in 1937. Late in 1938 Wang Ching-wei flew to Hanoi (Vietnam) and there issued a public statement calling on the Chinese government to work out a peaceful settlement with the Japanese. In May 1939 he visited Japan for a negotiation and later signed a secret agreement with Japan in Shanghai. On March 30, 1940, in cooperation with the Japanese, he became the head of a new regime, which governed the Japanese-occupied areas of China centred in the former Nationalist capital of Nanjing. Although Wang had hoped to be granted virtual autonomy in his government, the Japanese continued to exercise strong military and economic dominance over the area. Wang Ching-wei went to Japan for medical treatment in March 1944 and died there later that year.
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1934Wang Ching-wei was initially a member of the left wing of the Kuomintang (KMT), leading a government in Wuhan in opposition to the right wing government, but later became increasingly anti-communist after his efforts to collaborate with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ended in political failure. His political orientation veered sharply to the right later in his career after he collaborated with the Japanese.
Wang Ching-wei was a good poet, an excellent calligrapher, and a master of Chinese prose. He also was a powerful orator.
Wang Ching-wei was married to Chen Bijun and had six children with her, five of whom survived into adulthood. Of those who survived into adulthood, Wang's eldest son, Wenjin, was born in France in 1913. Wang's eldest daughter, Wenxing, was born in France in 1915, after 1948 was a teacher in Hong Kong, retired to the US in 1984 and died in 2015. Wang's second daughter, Wang Wenbin, was born in 1920. Wang's third daughter, Wenxun, was born in Guangzhou in 1922, and died in 2002 in Hong Kong. Wang's second son, Wenti, was born in 1928, and was sentenced in 1946 to imprisonment for being a hanjian.
