One day in April 1948, the shouts of newsboys in Beijing's hutongs were startling.
"Read the newspaper, read the newspaper, the latest news, Kawashima Yoshiko is not dead, the female traitor Kawashima Yoshiko executed on March 25 is a stand-in!"
Since this time, people have begun to talk about the death of Yoshiko Kawashima, which has not been stopped until now. Because so far, we have not seen official and accurate file declassification. People have included the mystery of Yoshiko Kawashima's life and death as one of the 10 mysteries of modern Chinese history.
Yoshiko Kawashima, the "Fourteen Grids" (Queen Daughter) of the former Qing Dynasty Imperial Family of The Qing Dynasty. Yoshiko Kawashima was originally named Aisin Kyora Xianjie, and her father, Zenki, was the 10th grandson of Emperor Taiji and one of the 12 Iron Hat Kings of the late Qing Dynasty. According to the generations, Kawashima Yoshiko was the cousin of Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Yoshiki befriended the Emperor of Japan's uncle and Kwantung Army, and in 1915 Yoshiko Kawashima gave her to her old friend Kawashima Nanisu when she was 9 years old. And brought back to Japan to raise.
Kawashima was a Japanese spy who had been gathering intelligence for the Kwantung Army in China for many years. In Japan, Kawashima sent Yoshiko Kawashima to a female male and sent her to a judo and kenshu school in Tokyo. Yoshiko Kawashima often likes to dress up as a man and lives a luxurious, debauched, and different life. When Yoshiko Kawashima was 20 years old, she cohabited with Tanaka, a military attaché at the Japanese consulate in Shanghai, and returned to Shanghai together. Tanaka used her connections with the Manchu qing and Inner Mongolian nobles to develop into a Japanese spy.
Since then, Kawashima Yoshiko has carried out Japanese espionage activities with her own posture and special status in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, with the nicknames of "men's female spy" and "oriental female demon", and has done all kinds of bad things. She successfully persuaded Puyi to become the puppet Manchu Emperor; formed a reactionary armed force of nearly 5,000 people to specifically combat anti-Japanese forces in the territory; used hue corrosion to win over Kuomintang military and political leaders and steal intelligence to serve Japan. As a result, Yoshiko Kawashima was listed by the Nationalist government as a spy case No. 1 and arrested in October 1945.
In the early morning of March 25, 1948, in front of the iron gate of Beiping No. 1 Prison, many Chinese and foreign reporters gathered, and everyone learned that Yoshiko Kawashima would be executed on this day. Just as everyone was anxiously waiting, the iron door opened a slit, and there was a sound inside, only two foreign reporters were allowed to enter, at which time the reporters angrily knocked on the iron door in protest, but when the reporters knocked on the door and called the door, they ignored it inside. This was the original reason why people later questioned whether Yoshiko Kawashima was actually shot.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Kuomintang National Government executed a large number of traitors, but this execution of Yoshiko Kawashima was very special, the time was chosen in the early morning hours, and it was not public, only allowing two foreign journalists to witness, which is the first reason why people questioned whether Yoshiko Kawashima was really shot. The second reason, the photo of Yoshiko Kawashima after her execution, published by a foreign journalist, was covered in blood and her face was destroyed, making it impossible to identify. The third reason is that Yoshiko Kawashima has always been a woman dressed as a man with short hair, while Yoshiko Kawashima in the photo looks like long hair.
As doubts were raised about Yoshiko Kawashima's execution, several versions have appeared.
The original version is what the newspaper in the newspaper boy's hand at the beginning of this article said. The newspaper revealed that it was not Yoshiko Kawashima who was executed that day, but one of her fellow prisoners, Liu Fengling. This Liu Fengling was seriously ill in prison, and seeing that she could not do it, the Nationalist government authorities exchanged ten gold bars for forced Liu Fengling's mother to betray her daughter. Mother Liu had no power to return to heaven and had to agree. Before the execution, Mother Liu took four gold bars. After the incident, when Mother Liu went to ask for the remaining six gold bars, not only did the gold bars not return, but also the people did not return. Liu Fengling's sister was extremely saddened, and she exposed the matter.
Then another version came out, saying that before the execution, someone told Yoshiko Kawashima that the gunman's bullet did not have a bullet. She was told to fall to the ground immediately after the shot rang out, because it was just dark in the early morning, and the two foreign reporters were a little far away, and they couldn't see anything clearly. The autopsy would move her to a safe place, some said she was transferred to the Soviet Union, some said she was transferred to the United States, and some said she was transferred to a prison in Suzhou until she died.
The most recent claim is that three people named Li Gang, He Jingfang, and Zhang Yu cooperated, and after 4 years of painstaking research, two results were obtained: First, it was confirmed that the female corpse executed in Beiping Prison was not Yoshiko Kawashima herself, but a "stand-in", which has been recognized by experts and scholars engaged in the study of Yoshiko Kawashima in Japan; the second is an old lady Fang who lived in seclusion in Qijia Village, a new town on the outskirts of Changchun City, between 1949 and 1978. It was Yoshiko Kawashima who escaped from Beiping and came to Changchun in the northeast.
As for the claim that Mrs. Fang is Yoshiko Kawashima, more than one researcher later claimed that when Kawashima Yoshiko was executed, she was indeed rescued by the tanuki cat for the prince, and lived in anonymity for 30 years, until 1978, when she died of illness. The story was also published in books, covered by Japanese television, and feature films were produced. However, despite all the claims, there are still many people who hold different views, believing that the so-called evidence put forward by those who hold this view is only some indirect description, or some relics, living habits, and titles in front of Mrs. Fang's body, or lacks strong direct evidence.
Regarding the death of a female traitor, why did it attract so much speculation and become the subject of research, the author can't understand why this is so, what kind of feeling will it be for the officials who read this article? Feel free to share your views in the comments section.
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