The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Part 18

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.

Hsu, Leonard s.h.i.+hlien; _Sun Yat-sen, His Political and Social Ideals_, Los Angeles, 1933.

The most complete selection of the doc.u.ments of Sun Yat-senism available in English. Dr. Hsu has a.s.sembled 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 doc.u.mented and apparently unreliable. English version of the above.

Wittfogel, Karl; _Sun Yat Sen, Aufzeichnungen eines chinesischen Revolutionars_, 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 Wen Hsueh She_, 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 att.i.tude 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 coordinated effort of world capitalism and Chinese nationalism for the modernization of China. Also called the _Outline of Material Reconstruction_.

V. Commentaries on the Principles of Sun Yat-sen.

Li Ti tsun; _The Politico-Economic Theories of Sun Yat-sen_.

This work has not been published, but portions of it appeared in the _Chinese Students' Monthly_, XXIV, New York, 1928-1929, as follows: "The Life of Sun Yat-sen," no. 1, p. 14, November, 1928; "The Theoretical System of Dr. Sun Yat-sen," no. 2, p. 92, December 1928, and no. 3, p.

130, January 1929; and "The Sunyatsenian Principle of Livelihood," no. 5, p. 219, March 1929. It is most regrettable that the whole work could not be published as a unit, for Li's work is extensive in scope and uses the major Chinese and foreign sources quite skilfully.

Tai Chi-tao (Richard Wilhelm, translator); _Die Geistigen Grundlagen des Sunyatsenismus_, Berlin, 1931.

An informative commentary on the ethical system of Sun Yat-sen. Tai Chi-tao is an eminent Party leader.

Antonov, K.: _Sun'iatsenizm i kitaiskaia revoliutsiia_, Moscow, 1931.

Not available to the author.