The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Part 17

The bibliography of works in Western languages dealing with Sun Yat-sen is short. The author has made no attempt to gather various fugitive pieces, such as newspaper clippings. He believes, however, that the following bibliography of Western works on Sun is the most nearly complete which has yet appeared, and has listed, for the sake of completeness, two Russian items as yet unavailable in the United States.

The first half of the bibliography presents these Western materials, arranged according to their subject. Within each category, the individual items are presented in chronological order; this has been done in order to make clear the position of the works in point of time of publication-a factor occasionally of some importance in the study of these materials.

The second half of the bibliography lists further works which have been referred to or cited. The first group of these consists of a small collection of some of the more important Chinese editions of, and Chinese and j.a.panese treatises upon, Sun Yat-sen's writings. The second group represents various Western works on China or on political science which have been of a.s.sistance to the author in this study.

Chinese names have been left in their natural order, with the patronymic first. Where Chinese names have been Westernized and inverted, they have been returned to their original Chinese order, but with a comma inserted to indicate the change.

A. Major Sources on Sun Yat-sen Which are Available in Western Languages.

I. Biographies of Sun Yat-sen.

Ponce, Mariano, _Sun Yat-sen, El fundador de la Republica de China_, Manila, 1912.

A popular biography. Valuable for the period just before 1912.

Cantlie, James and Sheridan-Jones, C., _Sun Yat-sen and the Awakening of China_, New York, 1912.

Also a popular work. Valuable for the description of Sun Yat-sen's education.

Linebarger, Paul (and Sun Yat-sen), _Sun Yat-sen and The Chinese Republic_, New York, 1925.

The only biography authorized by Sun Yat-sen, who wrote parts of it himself. A propaganda work, it presents the most complete record of Sun's early life. Does not go beyond 1922.

Vilenskii (Sibiriakov), V., _Sun' Iat-Sen-otets kitaiskoe revoliutsii_, Moscow, 1925. The same, Moscow, 1926.

Not available.

Lee, Edward Bing-shuey, _Dr. Sun Yat-sen, His Life and Achievements_ (English and French), Nanking, n. d.

A synopsis, by a spokesman for the Nationalist Party.

Wou, Saofong, _Sun Yat-sen, Sa Vie et Sa Doctrine_, Paris, 1929.

An excellent outline, largely from Chinese sources.

Restarick, Henry Bond, _Sun Yat-sen, Liberator of China_, New Haven, 1931.

Useful for a description of Sun Yat-sen's life in Honolulu, and of some of his overseas connections.

-- (R.-Ch. Duval, translator), _Sun Yat-sen, Liberator de la Chine_, Paris, 1932.

de Morant, George Soulie, _Soun Iat-senn_, Paris, 1932.

A romantic work based upon Chinese sources, and the Chinese translation of Linebarger's work.

Linebarger, Paul; Linebarger, Paul M. A. (editor), _The Gospel of Sun Chung-shan_, Paris, 1932.

Sharman, (Mrs.) Lyon, _Sun Yat-sen, His Life and Its Meaning, A Criticall Biography_, New York, 1934.

The most complete biography of Sun Yat-sen. Well doc.u.mented and prepared.

Mrs. Sharman's work will remain authoritative for many years to come. Its main fault is its somewhat hyper-sensitive criticism of Sun Yat-sen's personality, with which the author never comes in contact.

Linebarger, Paul, _The Life of Sun Chung-san_, Shanghai, 1932.

Fragmentary proofsheets. See note in Preface.

Reissig, Paul, _Sun Yat Sen und die Kuomintang_, Berlin, n. d. A Lutheran missionary tract.

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.