Wang Ming

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Wang Ming in the early 1930s
Grave monument for Wang in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery

Wang Ming ( Chinese : 王明; Pinyin : Wáng Míng; born May 23, 1904 in Jinzhai , Anhui , † March 27, 1974 in Moscow ) was a leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the head of the group of 28 Bolsheviks . His birth name was Chen Shaoyu (陳紹禹). Wang Ming was the pseudonym by which he became known.

biography

In the 1930s, Wang was one of the most important opponents of Mao Zedong and of his line deviating from the directives of the Comintern and the orthodox Marxist-Leninist line. The competition between Wang and Mao reflects the power struggle between the Soviet Union and the Comintern on the one hand and the CCP on the other over the direction and future of the Chinese revolution.

Wang studied at the Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow and was head of the CCP delegation to the Comintern from 1931, where he was elected executive commissioner, member of the presidium and deputy director of the Comintern. In 1937, against the will of Mao, who saw Chiang Kai-shek as the main enemy of the communists , Wang pushed through the united front with the Kuomintang against the Japanese occupation of Manchuria . In 1941, he refused the self-infliction and declaration of loyalty Mao demanded. Instead, he continued to criticize Mao's policies towards Chiang Kai-shek and Japan. Soon afterwards he became seriously ill. In his later book, Fifty Years of the Communist Party of China and the Betrayal of Mao Zedong , Wang claims that Mao tried to poison him. This version is also represented by Jung Chang . In 1956, Wang went to the Soviet Union for medical treatment and did not return to China until his death.

swell

  1. ↑ Jung Chang, Jon Halliday : Mao. The life of a man, the fate of a people , chapter: An indomitable opponent is poisoned , p. 332 ff.

Publications

  • Ван Мин: 50 лет КПК и предательство Мао Цзэ-дуна , Москва: Политиздат, 1975; German edition: Wang Ming: 50 years of the Communist Party of China and the betrayal of Mao Zedong . Berlin: Dietz Verlag, 1981.
  • Wan Min: Lenin, Leninism and the Chinese Revolution . APN Publishing House, Moscow 1970.

literature

  • Jung Chang, Jon Halliday: Mao. The life of a man, the fate of a people . Munich 2005.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Wang Ming
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 王明 (Chinese); Wáng Míng
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Jinzhai , Anhui
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1974
Place of death Moscow