Wang Pingyi - Guan Xiangying's former colleague (3)

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From 1925 to 1927, in order to train cadres, the Communist Party of China sent a group of party members to study at Sun Yat-sen University and Dongfang University in the Soviet Union, which specialized in receiving Chinese trainees. According to Mao Mao's writing in "My Father Deng Xiaoping," at that time there were Deng Xiaoping, Fu Zhong, and Li Zhuoran on the CHINESE side, and Gu Zhenggang, Gu Zhengding, and Deng Wenyi on the Kuomintang side, as well as Wang Jingwei's nephew and secretary, Yu Youren's son-in-law Qu Wu, and so on. At that time, Wang Pingyi also went to the Soviet Union to study. Whether he knew Deng Xiaoping or not is not easy to verify now, but Qu Wu did know Wang Pingyi. In the 1980s, Taiwan compatriots were allowed to visit relatives on the mainland. In order to find her brother, who had not been heard from for more than thirty years, Ms. Wang Yuqin's son Zhang Hongkui, who was going to be a teacher, wrote a letter to Qu Wu, who was then the chairman of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee. Soon after, she received a letter signed by Qu Wu's office, which said:

Ms. Wang Yuqin:

Letter received. According to the investigation, Ling's brother Wang Pingyi was indeed in Taiwan. After going to Taiwan, he served as a professor at the School of Political Work Cadres and published various works such as "On Political Capital".

Asking me to help me with Wang Pingyi's contact is indeed difficult.

At that time, the president of Sun Yat-sen University, Radek, was a well-known figure in the Trotskyists, and most of the professors and teachers he invited were also Trotskyists. Inside and outside the classroom, they quoted scriptures and excerpted passages from the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin, and openly propagated and defended the Trotskyists. Some Chinese students gradually became influenced by Trotskyist propaganda, and began to sympathize with Trotsky from good feelings, from sympathy to admiration, from admiration to faith, from faith to finally join the Trotskyists. Among them, with regard to the "Fighting Society", Pu Qingquan said in "The Emergence and Demise of The Chinese Trotskyism" (originally published in the "Selected Literary and Literary Materials", No. 71, October 1980 edition of zhonghua bookstore):

Zhao Ji, Liu Ying, Wang Pingyi, Xu Naida, and others who had returned from the Oriental University in Moscow in the spring of 1930 established a small Trotskyist organization in Shanghai called the "Fighting Society". The name comes from the fact that Trotsky ran a newspaper called The Battle, and in his honor they used the name to express "glory."

They ran a journal called Combat, which featured articles written by Trotsky. Zhao, Liu, and Wang also wrote some. "Battle" was published for several issues, and it was discontinued by the time of the unification congress.

Regarding the emergence of Chinese Trotskyism, Zheng Chaolin wrote on August 28, 1982, "Peng Shuzhi Closed His Eyes and Speaks Blindly":

In May 1929, Yin Kuan, who was idle in Shanghai, met Wang Pingyi, a student who had returned from Moscow. After the May Thirtieth Movement from 1924 to 1925, Yin Kuan served as the secretary of the provincial party committee in Shandong Province and knew Wang Pingyi. At this time, Wang Pingyi belonged to the Trotskyist organization that returned to China from Moscow, and was tasked with operating within the Party, disseminating propaganda materials, and expanding the ideological influence of the opposition. Yin Kuan accepted Wang Pingyi's influence, got the mimeographed document, showed it to me, and also showed it to Peng Shuzhi, and then Peng Shuzhi showed it to Chen Duxiu, because at that time, chen Duxiu's home was only known to Peng Shuyi. We, the Duxiu faction, have all accepted Trotsky's ideas. The articles we saw at that time were all short articles, and later Chen Duxiu paid for the collection of these short articles and printed them in a book called "The Question of the Chinese Revolution." Wang Pingyi and his friends are responsible for proofreading, they have no experience, there are many typos, but the impact is very large, many people have read these articles and become Trotskyists. In September of that year, we were all Trotskyists and did not need to be persuaded again. At this time, Liu Renjing returned to Shanghai, and Chen Duxiu and we both received him as Trotskyists.

According to Zheng Chaolin, Wang Ping played a very big role in the emergence of Chinese Trotskyism. Zheng Chaolin was an important member of the "Proletarian Society" at that time, and his claim should be credible.

In May 1931, the "Unification Congress" of Chinese Trotskyists was held in Shanghai. The representatives of the "Proletarian Society" were Chen Duxiu, Peng Shuzhi, Zheng Chaolin, and a representative from Guangdong, a total of four people. The representatives of "Our Word Society" are Chen Yimou and the representatives from Guangdong, a total of four people. The representatives of the "October Society" are Wang Wenyuan, Song Fengchun, Luohan and Pu Dezhi. The representative of the "Fighting Society" was Wang Ping (neither Zhao Ji nor Liu Ying attended the congress).

The conference elected the presidium: Chen Duxiu, Zheng Chaolin, Wang Wenyuan, Chen Yimou, Wang Ping,, and Chen Duxiu as the chairman of the presidium. He first proposed a three-minute silence for the martyrs who died for communism, and then gave a "political report" in which Chen Duxiu played out and explained Trotsky's political program for the Chinese Trotskyites.

Wang Jingting (also known as Wang Haoshan), the father of Wang Pingyi, opened a paper cigarette shop in Xujiahui, Shanghai. Wang Yudong, the fourth sister of Wang Pingyi, was a teenager at the time and was also in Shanghai. This paper cigarette shop is actually a point of contact for Trotskyists.

Chen Duxiu is a tall, white hemp seed, who often comes to the paper cigarette shop. He buys things is fake, looking for big brother is real. The two men hid in the attic, grunting for a long time. Before leaving, Chen Duxiu bought a little small thing. Now that I think about it, he should use this as a cover. (Ms. Wang Yudong recalled)

In September 1933, the Kuomintang agent JumaZi instigated Gai Shuda and Fei Keqin, who had returned from Moscow to become spies at the University of China, to follow Pu Dezhi and find out the address of the Trotskyist meeting, and came to make an emergency arrest. The people arrested this time were: Chen Duxiu, Peng Shuzhi, Pu Dezhi, Song Fengchun, Luo Shipan, Peng Daozhi, Zeng Meng, He Zhichen, Wang Pingyi, Liang Youguang, and so on.

One day, my eldest brother and they were in a meeting together. Before the meeting was over, people were surrounded, all holding guns. Big brother, none of them resisted, and just like that, they followed. Perhaps, they feel that they are defenseless, and that resistance will only lead to senseless sacrifice.

The eldest brother was arrested, and the father found out where he was being held through the relationship, and he went with me many times to deliver food to the eldest brother. At that time, the rice was given to him in a bamboo tube. First, my father was afraid that he would not have enough to eat and starve, and second, he wanted to explore the wind. The eldest brother said that the last time I was arrested in Qingdao, you always spent money to buy me out. This time, even spending money won't work. The ancients said, "No one has died since ancient times", and I can die in this way.

When I came back from my eldest brother, my father was very sad. He has only one son! He did not understand why his son did not enjoy the blessings, but he went to join what party and what activities he engaged in. (Ms. Wang Yudong recalled)

Unexpectedly, Wang Pingyi was acquitted and released. His father and sister were very happy. Unexpectedly, within a few days, he was arrested by the secret agents again. This time, he issued an anti-communist manifesto and joined the Kuomintang.

My eldest brother and Chiang Ching-kuo were classmates who stayed in the Soviet Union. After his arrest, the news reached Chiang Ching-kuo, who came to do persuasion work, and he joined the Kuomintang. (Ms. Wang Yudong recalled)

This recollection is inaccurate. Because Chiang Ching-kuo returned to China in April 1937. Is it under the banner of Chiang Ching-kuo who persuaded him to surrender? We can only think like this.