Wang Mo (traditional Chinese: ; simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: Wáng Mó; Wade-Giles: Wang Mo) (1895 – 1958) was a Chinese politician and educator. He was an important politician during the Wang Jingwei regime (Republic of China-Nanjing).
Biography Wang was born in 1895, in Yilong.Asahi Shimbun, November 12th, 1943, p. 2 wrote he was "49 years old, this year". He went to Japan where he graduated the Tokyo Teacher's High School (; Now, the Tokyo University of Education, ) and the Tokyo Imperial University. Later he returned to China, he successively held the positions of Professor of the National University of Wuchang (), National University of Beiping (), Teacher's College () and Tsinghua University.Asahi Shimbun, November 12, 1943, p.2. And he was also elected to Senator of the Beijing Government.Liu (etc. ed.) p.1255. He later worked as president of the National Teacher's University of Beiping (), from 1942, he also worked as a professor at this university.
In November 1943, upon the reformation of the North China Political Council (), Wang was catapulted to Chief of the General Office for Education () and Executive Member of the same Council. In next July, he resigned his post.Guo (main ed.) p.1885. After Wang Mo's resigning, the Chairperson of the North China Political Council Wang Kemin concurrently held the position of Chief of the General Office for Education until February 1945.
Following the defeat of Japan in August 1945, Wang was arrested by Chiang Kai-shek's government and imprisoned in Nanjing. He received a sentence of 10 years in prison. However, in 1949 he was released and retired in Beijing. He died in 1958, aged 62 or 63.Li, pp.159-160.
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from the Special Edition of Literary&Historical Materials in Yilong Vol.18 (仪陇文史资料选辑 第18辑)