Wang Fanxi Archive

Description

Correspondence, manuscripts and press cuttings covering the work and life of Wang Fanxi, and many of his comrades.

Includes Wang Fanxi's memoirs and other writings including one on Mao Zedong's thought on the Cultural Revolution his manuscript 'Zheng Chaolin: the man and his deeds'. The collection also includes documents relating to his appointment to Lingnan School in Macao.

The collection includes substantial groups of correspondence, including family correspondence and letters between Wang Fanxi and Gregor Benton, Frank Glass, Pierre Frank, Louis Sinclair, Pierre Rousset, Jiu Jing, Sun Liang, Ma Si, Lou Guohua, Zheng Chaolin and Alex Buchman, correspondence and documents relating to Wang and comrades of the Fourth Communist International.

Also encompasses Chinese Trotskyist records of the Amsterdam Institute of Social History, manuscript of Zheng Chaolin, articles by Sun Lian, Ma Si, Lou Zichun, documents, magazines and research relating to Chinese Trotskyists, manuscripts and drafts of Wang Fanxi, Zheng Chaolin and Lou Guohua on Chen Duxiu, Duxiu's writings, speeches and articles, document collections relating to the Fourth Communist International, magazines, documents and correspondence relating to the Trotskyists of Hong Kong, documents from the cases of Wang Shiwei, Wu Zhongxian, Liu Shanquing and Wei Jingsheng, archival papers of the Hoover Institution and Harvard University on Trotskyists, and various newspaper cuttings, including photocopies of the Trotskyist newspaper 'Fight'.

Physical characteristics

Measurement details: 49 filing boxes within 27 large boxes.

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Biography or history

Wang Fanxi (1907-2002) was a leading Chinese Trotskyist revolutionary. He moved to Leeds in 1975.

Access and usage

Access

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