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Wang Ming | |
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王明 | |
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| Head of the Chinese delegation to the Communist International | |
| In office October 1931 – July 1937 | |
| Succeeded by | Wang Jiaxiang |
| Head of the United Front Work Department | |
| In office 1942–1947 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Zhou Enlai |
| Member of the 6th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party | |
| In office 1928–1945 | |
| Director of the Legal Committee of the Central People's Government Administration Council | |
| In office 21 October 1949 – 27 September 1954 | |
| Premier | Zhou Enlai |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Chen Shaoyu 23 May 1904 Jinzhai, Anhui, Qing dynasty |
| Died | 27 March 1974 (aged 69) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party |
| Spouse | Meng Qingshu (孟庆树) |
| Relations | Huang Lianfang (stepmother; 黄莲芳) |
| Children | Chen Fangni (陈芳妮) Chen Danzhi (陈丹芝) Chen Danding (陈丹丁) |
| Parent(s) | Chen Pinzhi (陈聘之) Yu Youhua (喻幼华) |
| Alma mater | Wuhan University Moscow Sun Yat-sen University |
| Occupation | Politician |
Wang Ming (Chinese: 王明; pinyin: Wáng Míng; May 23, 1904 – March 27, 1974) was a senior leader of the early Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He led the CCP delegation to the Communist International (Comintern) from 1931 to 1937. After returning to China, he came into conflict with Mao Zedong.
From 1925 to 1929, Wang studied in Moscow at the Sun Yat-sen University, where he was a supporter of Joseph Stalin's during the Soviet Union's leadership struggles. After returning to China, he was briefly purged by Li Lisan's faction before being fully reinstated in late 1930. In January 1931, he was promoted to the Politburo and rose rapidly in importance during a time of high attrition in the CCP's top leadership due to purges, arrests, and flights into hiding. Wang became the CCP's leading representative to the Comintern and left for Moscow in October 1931. In that role, he helped promote the idea of an alliance between the CCP and the Kuomintang (KMT) to resist Japanese imperialism, which would eventually come to fruition as the Second United Front. After he returned to China in 1937, Wang vocally opposed what he saw as Mao's "nationalist deviation" from orthodox Marxism–Leninism. According to Mao, Wang epitomized the intellectualism and foreign dogmatism Mao criticized in his essays On Practice and On Contradiction.