Wang Fanxi

Fanxi Wang (Chinese王凡 西; born March 16, 1907 in Xiashi, China, † December 30, 2002 in Leeds ) was a leading Chinese Trotskyist revolutionary.

Life

Wang Fanxi was born in Xiashi near Hangzhov in the Chinese province Zheijang. Politically, he was in his youth marked by the movement of the fourth May After movement of the 30th May, he joined the then illegal Communist Party of China at ( CCP). The years 1925-1927 he spent studying in Moscow, first at the KUTV, a political university which specialized in the training of revolutionary cadres in the countries of the East, and later at the Sun Yat- sen University. During this time he came up with the ideas of the Russian opposition left in contact and was a member of a secret Trotskyite association of Chinese students. After his return to China he worked for the CCP, from which he was excluded but after his public commitment to Trotskyism. Subsequently, he was a leading member of the opposition group in October and was instrumental in the unification conference of the Chinese Trotskyist groups in 1931 with. During this time he worked closely with Chen Duxiu, but spent most of the years from 1931 to 1937 in political prisons of the ruling Kuomintang. In 1941 he was a founding member of the Internationalist Workers Party of China from 1949 he was sent to Hong Kong. By fleeing to Macau he escaped the nationwide crackdown of the CCP in December 1952. With the help of friends he went into exile in 1975 to Leeds. After he could not leave the last years of his life due to physical suffering his house, he died on 30 December 2002.

Wang Fanxi brought out a variety of oppositional newspapers in his politically active time. His livelihood he deserved for a long time by the translations of the writings of Trotsky and other authors from the Russian into Chinese.

Works

• Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary 1919-1949, isp - Verlag, 1983