decades, Wang Jingwei and the entire reputation of the collaborationist government have undergone considerable scholastic debate. In general, evaluations produced by scholars working under the People's Republic of China have held the most critical interpretations of the failed regime, Western scholars typically holding the government and Wang Jingwei especially in a sympathetic light, with Taiwanese scholars falling somewhere in the middle. In popular culture Lust, Caution is a 1979 novella by Chinese author Eileen Chang which was later turned into an award-winning film by Ang Lee. The story is about a group of young university students who attempt to assassinate the Minister of Security of the Reorganized National Government. During the war, Ms. Chang was married to Hu Lancheng, a writer who worked for the Reorganized National Government and the story is believed to be largely based on actual events. The 2009 Chinese film The Message is a thriller/mystery in the vein of a number of Agatha Christie novels. The main characters are all codebreakers serving in the Reorganized National Government's military, but one of them is a Kuomintang double-agent. A Japanese intelligence officer detains the group in a castle and attempts to uncover which of them is the spy using psychological and physical coercion, uncovering the protagonists' bitter rivalries, jealousies, and secrets as he does so. The TV series Sparrow is a spy genre thriller. During Shanghai's Reorganised Government, communist agent Chen Shen infiltrates the Japanese' base and adopts the code name "Sparrow". His mission is to obtain the "zero" intel, a secret plan that could destroy China. To do so, he becomes the assistant of Bi Zhongliang, the leader of the Special Operations Team under the Public Security Bureau. See also Manchukuo Great Way Government Second Sino-Japanese War History of the Republic of China National Revolutionary Army Collaborationist Chinese Army Kuomintang-Nanjing Organization of the China Garrison detachment of the Imperial Japanese Army (to 1937) Organization of Japanese Expeditionary forces in China List of East Asian leaders in the Japanese sphere of influence (1931–1945) List of leaders of the Republic of China Notes References Citations Sources Journal articles Books External links Central China Railway Company Flag, under Japanese Army control Flags of the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China Slogans, Symbols, and Legitimacy: The Case of Wang Jingwei's Nanjing Regime Visual cultures of occupation in wartime China 1940 establishments in China 1945 disestablishments in China China, Reorganized