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De. Chapman's "The Chinese Revolution 1926-27" isa. serious effort to trace the forces which were responsible for the march of the Kuomintang irom Canton tothe Yangtze. The introduc-tory Chapter Tis rather weak and does not envoy a ality fo Hanae hao ically, impersonally' and accurately the facts of a Eh 3 Chapman apparent But' the remainder of the volume on. the whole, a splendid. presentation of a complex. situation, written with more understanding: with less propagandistic zeal than another hook en this subject which T have yet seen, The Hankow days are particulars well analyzed: the vole of Borodin and the Commnist Party of China are presented in adequate perspective. The emancipation, of won wen, undoubtedly the outstanding benefit to China in this evolu. is for the frst time portrayed atvgieal punctiliousness, Tt ion of woman in fascinating evement of the Communist, elution, It ix probably" true that such movement was accompanied Iie sex vaganee, that as the sli order broke downs the restrain= Inge fore of the Family system was weaken! and individual inhibitions were inadequate to provide a moral equivalent, hut the new womanhood of China is a startling fact, Free, independent, upright, alert, the new Woman is hurtuving a new race, What a contrast between the lly footed gentlewoman of the past de ede and the poisefal young gir dancing, playing. tennis, vigorous and fullccouled, No lining rosel tions produced thole characteristics, They are the spirit of a new era released in motherhood:
Dr, Chapman occasionally por= mits himself a modicum of pre judice, which is so unfortunate in otherwise accurate document. For instance, on page 210, he placer the blame for the failure of the Kuo Sung-lin revolt to Japan's defensive measures in the Railway zone. The facts of the Kuo Sung-in rebellion were perhaps. shrot northern dust when Chapman prepared his manuseri ut they' are now suticiently. wel known to make vorrestion pos Kuo Sunglin depended upon Yushsiang to provide reinforeen and Feng Yushsiange was slow in coming. Tad Feng: Yushsiang ave rived in time, it is, quite that the Kuo 8 in, T Canton, General ictics have time aid again proved costly 10 his allies: Zor instance, in the recent Wuhan sighting he has een Into, so that when the troops finally came to Wushengkuan the war was over and General Chiang Kaishek was in poeession of Wane Or page 248 De. Chapman gives an account of the breach between Hankows and Mowvow and here he ives General Feng Vu-hsiang the full credit for the achievement, his is a wholly incorrect version. Ile omits the discovery by Sun Fo and others 9f the secret instructions from the Third International to Rorodin. These episodes are fully described in my chapter on, the Kuomintang in the 1928 China Year Book: and the data was given
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ave by participants in the fine The most cogent significance of Dr. Chapman's volume is the fact that it places the Communist re-Tationship to the event in China in 1926.27 exactly. By careful ar~ rangement of his material, by the conservative iteration of exact. facts, he narrates what happened— ors.
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