Wang Jingwei (Chinese traditional: 汪精衛; Chinese simplified: 汪精卫; Pinyin: Wāng Jīngwèi ) (May 4th 1883 - November 10th 1944), is a politician Chinese. He was member of the left wing Guomindang (KMT) and made himself famous while breaking with Tchang Kaï-chek and while forming a government which collaborated with the Japan board in Nankin. He is regarded as the most infamous traitor of the Chinese Han ( Hanjian ).

Rise with the capacity

Born with Panyu, in the province of the Guangdong, Wang went to the Japan as international student sponsored by the government of the empire Qing in 1903 and joined the Tongmenghui (movement created by Sun Yat-SEN and Song Jiaoren) in 1905. It was stopped to have plotted the assassination of the regent, the second prince Chun, and remained in prison of 1910 until the Soulèvement of Wuchang the following year.

Wang Jingwei, the “Quisling Chinese”, continued a political life complex and often inconstant, variable of the Extreme left to the Extrême right-hand side, strewn with periods of exile. He was an important member at the beginning of Guomindang, and was an assistant of Sun Yat-SEN which honoured its will.

At the beginning of the Years 1920, Wang occupied several stations in the revolutionary government of Sun Yat-SEN in the Guangzhou, but following the death of Sun in 1925 it was confronted with a challenge for the control of the KMT.

Competition with Tchang Kaï-chek

During the Forwarding of North, Wang was one of those among the warping faction of the KMT which called with a continuous co-operation with the Chinese Communist party and the Komintern and with a stop of the forwarding of North. The faction of Wang which had established a new capital of the KMT with Wuhan, was opposed to Tchang Kaï-chek, which was making a bloody purging among the Communists of Shanghai and called with a greater push towards North. Not having neither the financial resources, nor the military resources to be opposed to Tchang increasingly powerful, the faction of Wang crumbled and Tchang Kaï-chek continued its purgings.

In 1930, Wang tested another blow against Tchang which fell through, this time with the assistance of Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan. After these incidents, he travelled in Germany, and maintained some contacts with Adolf Hitler. After its failure, Wang was reconciled with the government of Tchang with Nankin at the beginning of the Années 1930. It occupied of the important stations during the decade and accompanied the government in its retirement with Chongqing at the beginning by the Sino-Japanese Guerre (1937-1945). At that time, it organized groups of extreme right-hand side in the line of the fascistic parties European within the KMT. Wang was in the beginning one go away - war, but after the Chinese defeats with the Bataille of Shanghai (1932) and in the Défense of the Great wall, Wang became pessimistic on the chances of China in a war against Japan. It was made the spokesperson of opinions defaitists within the leaders of the KMT. Wang believed that China was to negotiate with Japan so as to peacefully survive.

Japanese collaborator

End 1938, Wang left Chongqing and was found in Shanghai, openly to negotiate with the Japanese invader. The March 30th 1940, it became Head of State of a phantom State based with Nankin, exerting the president's function of the yuan (executive) and of president of the national government (行政院長兼國民政府主席). It maintained during this period of the contacts with the German fascists and Italy NS. Then Wang lived in Japan during the war until its death four years later with Nagoya.

Wang was buried with Nankin close to the Mausolée Sun Yat-SEN, in a tomb very elaborate. A few years later, overcome Japan, the government of Guomindang under the crook of Tchang Kaï-chek brought back the capital to Nankin and destroyed fall it from Wang. Today a small house was drawn up.

Because of its role in the Sino-Japanese war, Wang was vilified by the majority of the Chinese historians. However others consider that he collaborated in good faith with the Japanese so as to preserve China.

Zh-yue: 汪精衞

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