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...warlords, to sacred mountains, even to traitors. From hundreds of miles around, pilgrims travel to the shores of Hang-chow's West Lake proudly to urinate upon the iron statue of a historic traitor named Chin Kuei. In honor of China's newest traitor, Wang Ching-wei, Chinese coolies call the fat-fried crullers they munch for breakfast yu cha-wei (i.e., "May Wei boil in oil in hell!"). Last week a new honor was bestowed on Traitor Wang. Chinese in Chungking started a chain letter respectfully dedicated to him. Each recipient of the letter was asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Tale of a Turncoat | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

There was a certain urgency about the chain letter, for this week Wang Ching-wei, 55, sets himself up as President of the Japanese-dominated "National Government of China." By announcing his inauguration last week, Wang Ching-wei brought to a climax the most extraordinary career of apostasy and betrayal known even to China, where over the centuries turncoats have been a penny a dozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Tale of a Turncoat | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...various times in his life Wang Ching-wei pretended devotion for the patriarch of Chinese revolution, Dr. Sun Yatsen, deserted him, later worked for him again, watched lovingly over his deathbed; studied in Japan on Imperial Scholarships awarded by the Manchu dynasty, tried to assassinate the Manchu Prince Regent; praised Russian Communism and opposed a young rival named Chiang Kai-shek because Chiang was such a conservative, then abandoned Communism and joined Chiang in condemnation of Japan, finally deserted Chiang to become Japan's best friend in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Tale of a Turncoat | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...Well aware of the very possible possibility of being assassinated by some Chinese patriot, Mr. Wang Ching-wei, presumably with an uncomfortable feeling in the pit of his stomach, set out last week from Shanghai to become Japan's puppet Chinese Premier in famed Nanking, where 27 months ago Japanese troops broke discipline and committed modern history's greatest mass rape (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Uncomfortable Puppet | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...have to do business with "The Nanking Government" or find it impossible to look after their interests in central China. The fighting Chungking Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek observed the arrival of Wang in Nanking by issuing an order to burn every book written by either Wang Ching-wei or his disciple Chou...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Uncomfortable Puppet | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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