The Archive · 1929

Mandarinism Dead

When it ig remembered that almost none of the real Kuomintang leaders had any administrative experience when they started from Canton, it is all the more surprising. that they have not done worse. It is lack of experience, lack of that breadth of vi a long handling of large problems, which had led Kuomintang leaders to make their greatest errors, many instances, they simply did not taries of tradition and experience, would have had every precedent for' every action, But China cannot return to mandarinism and the Kuo-

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