Mopern Constiturioxa,, Deverormenr in Cina. By Harold M. Vinacke, Associate Professor of Political Science in Miami University. Princeton University Press, Prince. ton, New Jersey; London, Oxford University Press. 1920. Pp. 280.
This volume is an attempt to trace the recent constitutional development of China from the Hundred Days' Reform of Kuang Hsit in 1898 down to January 1920 Had the survey been extended to the late autumn of 1920, there would have been a further and highly refreshing ''constitutional development" to be recorded Of the 10 chapters, the first is intreductory, and the last a clusion." The outline of events for the carlier years is taken from Morso's International Relations of the Chinese Empire," and Bland and Blackhouse's China Under the Empress Dowager." Later events and documents are cited from the China Year Book, the China Mission Year Book, Mil-Jard's "Our Eastern Question," Prof. Hornbeck's "Contemporary Politics in the Far East," Putnam Weale's "The Fight for the Republic in China," ete., All these are standard becks, but still more numerous are the citations from China journals such as the ''Peking Gazette," (the Eugene Chen variety), the National Review," each of which is extinct, and the "Far Eastern Review." None of these would be likely to be access sible to suderts im the United States, for whom the book is apparently designed.
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