36 Facts About Wang Ming

Wang Ming was a senior leader of the early Chinese Communist Party.

Wang Ming led the CCP delegation to the Communist International from 1931 to 1937.

From 1925 to 1929, Wang studied in Moscow at the Sun Yat-sen University, where he was a supporter of Joseph Stalin's during the Soviet Union's leadership struggles.

Wang Ming became the CCP's leading representative to the Comintern and left for Moscow in October 1931.

On May 23,1904, Wang Ming was born in Jinzhai, Anhui, as Chen Shaoyu to a poor peasant family.

Wang Ming then entered the Third Agricultural School of the Anhui Province, which was founded by the revolutionary Zhu Yunshan.

Wang Ming led boycotts of Japanese products and corrupt elections.

Consequently, in April 1926, Wang Ming was elected as chairman of the university's CCP branch.

In January 1927, when Mif came to China as the head of a Soviet delegation, Wang Ming was his interpreter.

Wang Ming was a part-time editor of the Guidance journal where he published a few articles.

In early 1929, Wang Ming left Sun Yat-sen University to return to China.

Wang Ming began dating Meng Qingshu, who later became his wife.

Wang Ming was then transferred to the Propaganda Department of CCP, where Li Lisan was the incumbent minister.

In 1930, when Wang Ming attended a secret meeting in Shanghai, he was promptly arrested.

Wang Ming was transferred to CCP's Central Labor Union after his release.

Wang Ming was more strict about adhering to the policies of the Comintern.

Wang Ming quickly found a temporary alliance with old CCP members, labor activists such as Wang Ming Mengxiong, Lin Yunan against Li.

At the Fourth Plenum of the Sixth Central Committee in January 1931, Wang Ming's was promoted to a position on the CCP's Politburo, although he was not given a seat on the Standing Committee.

Wang Ming was not a Commissioner of the Central Committee of CCP yet, this being a prerequisite for being a politburo member under the system proposed by Wang himself.

From November 1931 to November 1937, Wang Ming worked and lived in Moscow as director of the CCP's delegation to the Comintern.

In July 1935, Wang Ming had begun work on a document that explained how the new policy would apply to China.

Wang Ming even published a series of articles where he called for Chiang to either join an anti-Japanese united front or be overthrown by KMT patriots.

However, head of the Comintern Georgi Dimitrov pointed out that many of the criticisms Wang Ming was making against the CCP could just as easily be made against Wang Ming's attitude for the past few months.

Wang Ming was sent back to Yan'an in July 1937 when Wang Ming Jiaxiang arrived to take up his place.

Wang Ming demoted his former ally Zhang Wentian from the number 1 place to the number 7 place, which weakened his own camp and created new opponents by driving Zhang to Mao's group.

Chen was in charge of organization and Kang in charge of security, but oddly enough, Chen and Kang turned to Mao's camp, and as a result, Wang Ming lost two important potential supporters.

When Wang Ming boasted about his dirty work to Zhang Guotao, Zhang, who was regarded as dissident himself, was greatly irritated, for he had known these old CCP members quite well and worried about being persecuted himself.

When Wang Ming returned to Yan'an, he was admired by most of the CCP members as a talent of Marxism for his erudition and deep insights into Marxism and Leninism.

Furthermore, Wang Ming began to disagree with Mao over major issues on the United Front.

Wang Ming believed all CCP work should be carried out within the framework of the United Front; Mao insisted CCP should maintain its independence from the United Front instead.

Wang Ming became Mao's main target as representative of dogmatism and Zhou as representative of empiricism.

Nonetheless, in his later book 50 Years of the CPC, and in Yan'an Diary, written by a reporter from the Soviet Union, Wang Ming accused Mao of plotting to murder him by poison.

Wang Ming was elected as director of the Central Legal Committee of the CCP and the Central People's Government.

Wang Ming wrote many articles denouncing the CCP during the conflict between the CCP and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s.

Wang Ming's memoirs did provide some useful information about CCP history.

Above all, Wang Ming was lucky to escape the persecution of the Cultural Revolution, and lived in peace until his death in 1974 in Moscow.