Hong Kong Macau Republic of China (Taiwan)(groups of pro-Chinese identity) Hong Kong Republic of China (Taiwan)(groups of pro-Chinese identity) Current Former Wang Ruoshui (Chinese: 王若水; pinyin: Wáng Ruòshuǐ; Wade–Giles: Wang Jo-shui, 1926–2002), was a Chinese journalist, political theorist, and philosopher.

Later Wang became an advocate of "One Divides Into Two" and attacked Yang Xianzhen on the issue of "unity of thoughts and existence" over a long period.

Before the Cultural Revolution, at the height of the Sino-Soviet split, Wang was recruited by Maoist literary henchman Zhou Yang to a group he was organizing to research and criticize the Marxist humanism which was then influential in the Eastern bloc.

Wang wrote a letter to Mao with his complaints, and was suspended and sent to Red Star People's Commune at Daxing County for labour reform.

Wang returned to the People's Daily in 1976; in 1977, he was promoted to the position of deputy editor in charge of commentary, theory and literature, under Hu Jiwei, one of the earliest critics of the Cultural Revolution.

Soon after the downfall of the Maoists and far-left faction, Wang revealed that these much reviled "revisionist" doctrines had had a great impact on him, and had provided a lens through which he could understand and condemn the Cultural Revolution and the cult of Mao himself.

In 1983, Wang was removed from the position of deputy editor of People's Daily as demanded by the director of CCP's propaganda department, Deng Liqun, at the same time as his divorce with his first wife Zhong Dan was concluded.

He continued to write trenchant criticisms of the regime, and conduct polemics against Mao's former secretary Hu Qiaomu (1912-1993), a doctrinaire Marxist who had been behind his expulsion from the Party.

In 1963, the same year Mao praised his "The Philosophy of Table", he was assigned to a group to create brochures criticizing humanism, which was generally regarded as a bourgeois ideology..

Those works, while elaborating on his latest research on humanism and Mao, also revealed intimate details of the political struggles he previously involved in and his own growth as a thinker.