Wang Fanxi

In this Chinese name, the family name is Wang (王).

Wang Fanxi (Chinese: 王凡西; pinyin: Wáng Fánxī; March 16, 1907 – December 30, 2002) was a leading Chinese Trotskyist revolutionary.

Born near Hangzhou in Zhejiang province,[1] he joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), then an illegal organization, in 1925.[1] In 1927, he went to Moscow to study at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East. There he became a supporter of Trotsky and the International Left Opposition. On his return to China, Wang worked for the CCP and became a leading member of the Trotskyist October Group,[2] and then the Chinese Left Opposition.[3] He was jailed for most of the period from 1931 and 1937,[4] and was expelled from the CCP for his views.[citation needed]

In 1941, the Chinese Left Opposition split and Wang and others formed the Communist League (Internationalist), which became the Internationalist Workers Party of China in 1949.[citation needed] That year, he was sent to Hong Kong to act as an international link for the group, but was soon exiled to Macau.[citation needed] He wrote extensively and remained an influential figure, aligned with the United Secretariat of the Fourth International.[citation needed] In 1975, he was forced to move again, and he emigrated to Leeds, England, where he died on December 30, 2002.[1]

Works

References

  1. ^ a b c Benton 2015, p. 1191.
  2. ^ Benton 2015, p. 642.
  3. ^ Benton 1996, pp. 151–152.
  4. ^ Benton 2015, p. 686.

Works cited

  • Benton, Gregor (1996). China's Urban Revolutionaries: Explorations in the History of Chinese Trotskyism, 1921-1952. Humanities Press. ISBN 978-0-391-03921-6.
  • Benton, Gregor (1 September 2015). Prophets Unarmed: Chinese Trotskyists in Revolution, War, Jail, and the Return from Limbo. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-28227-8.



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