[6] A number of French doctoral dissertations by Chinese students deal with Chinese local government. Although they are of uneven quality, some give considerable material not otherwise available in a Western language. Among these are Chang-Yu-Sing, _L'Autonomie locale en Chine_, Nancy, 1933; Hsu Han-hao, _L'Administration provinciale en Chine_, Nancy, 1931; Ku-Yen-Ju, _Le Regime actuel le l'indépendance decentralisée en Chine_, Nancy, 1931; and Loo Kon-tung, _La Vie municipale et l'urbanisme en Chine_, Lyon, 1934. Among the most valuable and informing pictures of hsien government is "Hsien Government and Functions" by W. H. Ma, _The Chinese Recorder_ (Shanghai), vol. 68, pp. 506-512, 1937. The quotation is from p. 506. The _Information Bulletins_ published by the Council of International Affairs, Nanking, 1936-1937, include much material on Chinese politics and government. Especially interesting are E. C. Tang, _Five Years of the Control Yüan_, Nanking, 1936, and C. L. Hsia, _Background and Features of the Draft Constitution of China_, Nanking, 1937. [7] See "An Account of the Hsien and Banner Council System of Manchoukuo," _Contemporary Manchuria_ (Dairen), vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 92 ff., 1938. [8] Compare the position of Chiang as Party Leader in China with that of the _Führer_ in Germany, as described in Fritz Morstein Marx, _Government in the Third Reich_, 2d ed., pp. 62 ff., New York and London, 1937. [9] See the news reports in _The China Weekly Review_ (Shanghai), vol. 84, pp. 150 ff., 1938. [10] See _Fundamental Laws of the Chinese Soviet Republic_, p. 18, New York, 1934. Edgar Snow's _Red Star Over China_, New York, 1938, is the best book on the Chinese Communists. P. Miff, _Heroic China_, New York, 1937, is a useful condensed history of Communism in China based on the material currently available in the Soviet press. Mao Tse-tung, Wang Ming and others, _China: The March Toward Unity_, New York, 1937, contains some of Snow's material and also translations of important speeches and manifestoes regarding the inauguration of a United Front policy. A considerable amount of Chinese Communist material is to be found in the magazines _The Voice of China_ (now suspended), Shanghai, and _China Today_, New York. [11] For a description of the nature and organization of the pro-Japanese Peking regime of 1937-1938 see Andrew W. Canniff, "Japan's Puppets in China," _Asia_, vol. 38, pp. 151-153, 1938. The new Nanking regime is described in the _China Weekly Review_ (Shanghai), Apr. 2, 1938. [12] Tsui Shu-chin, "The Influence of the Canton-Moscow Entente upon Sun Yat-sen's Revolutionary Tactics," _The Chinese Social and Political Science Review_ (Peiping), vol. 20, pp. 101 ff., 1936.