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
5 The Chinese text of these is given in Hu Han-min, _ed._, _Tsung-li
Ch’üan Chi_ (_The Complete Works of the Leader_), 4 vol. in 1,
Shanghai, 1930. This collection comprises the most important works
of Sun which were published in his lifetime. Edited by one of the
two scholars closest to Sun, it is the standard edition of his
works. English versions of varying amounts of this material are
given in Paschal M. d’Elia, _The Triple Demism of Sun Yat-sen_,
Wuchang, 1931; Frank W. Price, _San Min Chu I, The Three Principles
of the People_, Shanghai, 1930; and Leonard Shih-lien Hsü, _Sun
Yat-sen, His Political and Social Ideals_, Los Angeles, 1933. Each
of these works will henceforth be cited by the name of its editor;
for brief descriptions and appraisals, see the bibliography.
6 The only English version of this work is one prepared by Wei Yung,
under the title of _The Cult of Dr. Sun_, Shanghai, 1931. Fragments
of this work are also to be found in Vilenskii (Sibiriakov), V.,
_Sun’ Iat-sen, Otets Kitaiskoi Revoliutsii_, (_Sun Yat-sen, Father
of the Chinese Revolution_), Moscow, 1925; _Zapiski Kitaiskogo
Revoliutsionera_, (_Notes of a Chinese Revolutionary_), Moscow,
1926; _Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary_, Philadelphia, n. d.; and
Karl Wittfogel, _Sun Yat Sen, Aufzeichnungen eines chinesischen
Revolutionärs_, Vienna & Berlin, n. d. (ca. 1927).
7 This work has not been translated into any Western language.
8 Sun Yat-sen, _The International Development of China_, New York and
London, 1929.
9 This is given in Hsü, cited above, and in Min-ch’ien T. Z. Tyau,
_Two Years of Nationalist China_, Shanghai, 1930, pp. 439-442. Dr.
Tyau substitutes the word “Fundamentals” for “Outline,” a rather
happy choice.
10 See bibliography for a complete list of the translations. d’Elia
translation, cited, pp. 36-49, dedicates a whole chapter to the
problem of an adequate translation of the Chinese phrase _San Min
Chu I_. He concludes that it can only be rendered by a nelogism
based upon Greek roots: _the triple demism_, “demism” including the
meaning of “principle concerning and for the people” and “popular
principle.”
11 T’ang Leang-li, _The Inner History of the Chinese Revolution_, New
York, 1930, p. 166.
12 d’Elia translation, cited, p. 58.
13 d’Elia translation, cited, p. 58.
14 See Lyon Sharman, _Sun Yat-sen, His Life and Its Meaning_, New York,
1934, p. 292, for a stimulating discussion of the parts that the
various documents played in the so-called "cult of Sun Yat-sen."
15 Sharman, cited, p. 270.
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