The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu ILinebarger, Paul Myron Anthony
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The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I
Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony
Sun, Yat-sen, 1866-1925. San min zhu yi
II. Translations of the Sixteen Lectures on the _San Min Chu I_.
Anonymous, _The Three Principles_, Shanghai 1927.
Of no value.
Tsan Wan, _Die Drei Nationalen Grundlehren, Die Grundlehren von
dem Volkstum_, Berlin, 1927.
A translation of the lectures on Nationalism; excellent as far as it goes.
d’Elia, Paschal M., S. J. (translator and editor); _Le Triple
Demisme de Suen Wen_, Shanghai, 1929.
The only annotated translation. The style is simple and direct, and the
notes accurate, for the most part, and informative. The uninitiated reader
must make allowances for Father d’Elia’s religious viewpoints. This is
probably the most useful translation.
Price, Frank W. (translator), Chen, L. T. (editor); _San Min Chu
I, The Three Principles of the People_, Shanghai, 1930.
The translation most widely known and quoted.
d’Elia, Paschal M., S. J., _The Triple Demism of Sun Yat-sen_,
Wuchang, 1931.
A translation of the French version.
Hsü, Leonard Shihlien; _Sun Yat-sen, His Political and Social
Ideals_, Los Angeles, 1933.
The most complete selection of the documents of Sun Yat-senism available
in English. Dr. Hsü has assembled his materials remarkably well. His
chapter “The Basic Literature of Sunyatsenism” is the best of its kind in
English.
III. Other Translations of the Chinese Works of Sun Yat-sen.
Anonymous; _Zapiski kitaiskogo revoliutsionera_, Moscow, 1926.
Not available.
—— _Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary_, Philadelphia, n. d.
Not documented and apparently unreliable. English version of the above.
Wittfogel, Karl; _Sun Yat Sen, Aufzeichnungen eines chinesischen
Revolutionärs_, Vienna and Berlin, n. d. (ca. 1927).
The most complete Marxist critique, containing also an excellent short
biography.
Tsan Wan; _30 Jahre Chinesische Revolution_, Berlin, 1927.
An excellent translation of one of the short autobiographies of Sun
Yat-sen.
Wei Yung (translator); _The Cult of Dr. Sun, Sun Wên Hsüeh Shê_,
Shanghai, 1931.
Also referred to as _The Outline of Psychological Reconstruction_. It
comprises a series of popular essays discussing the problems involved in
modernization of the Chinese outlook, and presenting Sun Yat-sen’s theory
of knowledge versus action.
IV. Works in English by Sun Yat-sen.
Sun Yat-sen; _Kidnapped in London_, Bristol, 1897.
Sun Yat-sen’s first book in English. Expresses his Christian, modernist,
anti-Manchu attitude of the time.
—— _How China was Made a Republic_, Shanghai, 1919.
A short autobiography of Sun Yat-sen; see note in Preface.
—— _The International Development of China_, New York and London,
1929.
Sun Yat-sen’s bold project for the industrialization of China. First
proposed in 1919, the work calls for a coördinated effort of world
capitalism and Chinese nationalism for the modernization of China. Also
called the _Outline of Material Reconstruction_.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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