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"That China fights today as a motion is no small tribute to the National Government of the Kuomin. tang established at Nanking in 1927, writes Fritz Morstein Marx in his foreword to Mr. Linebarger's book on Republican Government in China.
Mr. Linebarger's book has an interest in the fact that the author is a son of Judge Linebarger who was formerly counsellor to and biographer of Sun Yat-sen. But in addition to this fact the book is extremely readable as well as informing. Witness the comment on the end of the Empire: "The ideological revolution was already under way, and the Empire about to dissolve into the past. What neither Sun nor anyone else realized was that ahead of China there lay government problems more serious than misrule." Or these comments: "The Northern Republic survived until 1928, increasingly a puzzle gnd an illusion." "The constitution itself (of 1923) was the work of political scientists; it was as admirable a document as John Locke's constitution for the colony of Carolina "From the'metamorphoses of the Peking Republic the Chinese learned most bitterly the lessons of political reality. It dawned upon them that government would have to rest upon foundations reaching deep into society and could not be superimposed upon the existing order."
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