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Wang Shiwei and "Wild Lilies"

The painting on the cover of this book was specially prepared and dedicated to Ms. Dai Qing by Huang Yong yu, the world-renowned Chinese artist. The poem in the painting reads:

Perhaps in a hundred years all sorrow shall be diminished, but at present, I am embedded in great sorrow.

Wang Shiwei and "Wild Lilies"

Rectification and Purges in the Chinese Communist Party 1942-1944

Dai Qing

Edited by David E. Apter and Timothy Cheek

Translated by Nancy Liu and Lawrence R. Sullivan
Documents compiled by Song Jinshou

An East Gate Book

First published 1994 by M.E. Sharpe

Published 2015 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tai, Ch'ing, 1941
[Wang Shih-wei y "Yeh pai ho hua". English]

Wang Shiwei and "Wild lilies": rectification and purges in the Chinese Communist Party, 19421944 / Dai Qing; edited by David E. Apter and Timothy Cheek; translated by Nancy Liu and Lawrence R. Sullivan; documents compiled by Song Jinshou.
p. cm.

Translation of: Wang Shih-wei y "Yeh pai ho hua."
"East gate book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-56324-256-7 (pbk.)

1. Wang, Shih-wei, 19061947. 2. Chung-Kuo Kung ch'an tangDiscipline.
I. Apter, David Ernest, 1924
II. Cheek, Timothy.
III. Sung, Chin-shou. IV. Title.

JQ1519.A5T16213 1993
324.251'075dc20
93-34022
CIP

ISBN 13: 9781563242564 (pbk)

FOR LIU YING

AND THE SPOUSES OF ALL PERSECUTED PERSONS IN CHINA

"Don't cry. Don't laugh. But please do understand."

Spinoza

"I don't agree with what you say, but I'll fight to death to protect your right to say it."

Voltaire

"The faults of a gentleman are just like the eclipses of the sun or the moon. If he has faltered, everyone sees it. When he corrects his ways, all will respect him."

The Analects

Contents

David E. Apter and Timothy Cheek

by

Wang Shiwei

by

Wang Shiwei

Tang Tianran

Compiled and Introductions by

Song Jinshou

WangShiwei

WangShiwei

WangShiwei

WangShiwei

WangShiwei

WenJize

Yang Shangkun

Section 3 [omitted]

Liu Ying

1. ii
2. vi
3. vii

Guide

In translating Dai Qing's Wang Shiwei and "Wild Lilies " we have tried through minimal editing to retain Dai Qing's original, if somewhat disjointed, style. Thus there is considerable overlap between the book and the documents she frequently quotes. Ms. Dai's quixotic style of sudden asides on related issues with quick returns to the main narrative may also occasionally confuse the reader. Finally, we have followed Dai Qing in offering few explanatory notes, generally avoiding elaborations on the many subtleties of the text. This is a style generally appreciated by Chinese readers, which led us to offer as literal a translation as possible.

It is unfortunate that much of Dai Qing's biting sarcasm may be lost on those not intimately acquainted with China's current political and journalistic culture, a problem exacerbated by the usual difficulties of rendering political Chinese into English. The word comrade (tongzhi) in Dai's use seems innocent enough, but when applied to Wang Shiwei's accusers, like Kang Sheng and Hu Qiaomu, the intent is quite sarcastic and scornful.

Other examples abound throughout the text.

The endnotes, bibliography, supplement, and appendixes (A and B) to the book are Dai Qing's. The translators and editors have added only the explanatory footnotes indicated in the text by asterisks (*), Thanks to Professor Timothy Cheek for his assistance in this translation; to Professor David E. Apter for acquiring this most valuable manuscript while in China and for organizing a colloquium "On Revolutionary Intellectuals: The Case of Wang Shiwei," Whitney Center for the Humanities, Yale University, November 13-14, 1992; to Professor Anthony Saich for permission to use, with slight modifications, his translation of Wen Jize's "Diary of a Struggle"; and to Mr. Song Jinshou of the CCP Organization Department who compiled many of the documents and composed the introductions in . The translators also wish to thank Professor Harriet C. Mills, University of Michigan, for her generous assistance in translating and editing critical parts of the manuscript. Finally, we are all indebted to Ms. Dai Qing, whose tenacity and search for the truth has made this a most enriching, though often sobering, enterprise.

Nancy (Yang) Liu, Columbia University
Lawrence R. Sullivan, Adelphi University and
the East Asian Institute, Columbia University

After hurrying day and night to Shiyan City, Hubei Province, two cadres from the People's Republic Public Security Department announced to the elderly woman that they had been looking for the "Decision on Rehabilitation" which restored the word comrade (tongzhi) to her long-dead husband.

The medium-sized city known for its automobile industry where Liu Ying (Wang Shiwei's widow) resides.

Hearing the appellation tongzhi, Liu Ying, now eighty-five years old, could not hold back her tears. That was 1991.

It had been forty-nine years since "comrade" had been struck from her husband's name, and it had been forty-three years since her husband's head had been removed as a result of losing that appellation.

A sum of moneyten thousand yuancame along with the rehabilitation. Liu Ying was at a loss trying to figure out what the money was for and how the authorities had decided on this amount.

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