Editing Wang Jingwei (section)

==Legacy==
For his role in the [[Pacific War]], Wang has been considered a traitor by most post-World War II Chinese historians in both Taiwan and mainland China. His name has become a [[wikt:byword|byword]] for "traitor" or "treason" in mainland China and Taiwan. In their rhetoric, the communist and nationalist governments would both go on to eviscerate Wang for his collaboration with the Japanese. The Communist Party emphasized his anti-communism while the Kuomintang downplayed it—instead focusing on his personal betrayal of Chiang Kai-shek. Moreover, the communists purported that his high rank within the KMT demonstrated a duplicitous, treasonous nature inherent to the nationalist party. Both sides chose to minimize his earlier association with Sun Yat-sen.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ke-wen |first=Wang |date=2002 |title=Irreversible Verdict? Historical Assessments of Wang Jingwei in the People's Republic and Taiwan |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/tcc.2002.28.1.57 |journal=Twentieth-Century China |language=en |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=57–81 |doi=10.1179/tcc.2002.28.1.57 |issn=1521-5385|url-access=subscription }}</ref>{{rp|59}}{{Request quotation|date=June 2015}}