The China of Chiang K'ai-Shek: A Political StudyLinebarger, Paul Myron Anthony
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The China of Chiang K'ai-Shek: A Political Study
Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975; China -- Politics and government -- 1912-1949
Fourthly, the Nanking government is an encouraging indication that the
modern Chinese have finally come to the point where five-power
republicanism is the norm. It is significant that the Nanking regime
practices an extreme purism of organization and nomenclature, conforming
precisely to antebellum practice.[11] The regime has changed the
theoretical structure of the National Government very little, but added
the Party ministries to the government cabinet. One further change has
consisted in the logically desirable transference of the Ministry of
Justice to the Executive _Yüan_ from the Judicial, thus eliminating the
anomaly of having both prosecuting and adjudicatory agencies under the
same control.[12] The minister, Li Shêng-wu, is a well-known scholar in
international law and an educational editor.[13]
[Footnote 11: Such a chart is found in _The People's Tribune_, XXIX
(March 1940), p. 214, together with a list of incumbents on the
following pages. The issue is headed by an editorial, "The National
Government Returns to Its Capital" and "Peace, Struggle, and Save
China" by Wang Ching-wei (_sic_). The official outline of the
government is to be found in [Reorganized Government], _K'ao-shih Yüan
Kung-pao_ (Public Gazette of the Examination _Yüan_), Nanking. Vol. I,
No. 2 (June 1940), following p. 80.]
[Footnote 12: [Reorganized Government], _Ssŭ-fa Hsing-chêng
Kung-pao_ (Public Gazette of the Ministry of Justice), Nanking, gives
a well-edited résumé of the work of the Ministry and its policy in
prosecutions.]
[Footnote 13: [_China Weekly Review_; J. B. Powell, editor], _Who's
Who in China, Fifth Edition_, Shanghai, [1937], p. 145. For further
information see the supplement on the pro-Japanese leaders in _Who's
Who in China, Supplement to Fifth Edition_, Shanghai, [1940]. This
presents a hall of notoriety for all the major Chinese leaders
affiliated with the enemy. This _Who's Who_ is regarded by the present
author as one of the most valuable sources on all Far Eastern
politics. It is engrossingly good reading and entertainment, the
pictures of the subjects being included in most instances. Behind
these simple and short biographies, there lies more drama than
Hollywood dare produce.]
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