Mr, Linebarger has avoided the more usual historical introduction and has brought in discussion of China under imperial government in sections introductory to each of three main parts of his subject. Part I, Movements, has three chapters on Confucianism, Nationalism, and "Battling Creeds;' Part LI, Armies, has two chapters on Warriors and Causes; and Part LI, Governments, has four chapters on the Empire, Revolution, Reconstruction, and a Conclusion, This treatment has real merit, and in fact Mr. Linebarger's book will rank with the best of the books dealing with China's government, for there is no material perfunctorily introduced? forms and organizations are presented only in such manner as to bring out their inner spirit. For example in describing China's military strength in the past, Mr, Linebarger's words might well apply today:
In epoch after epoch, armies se to spring forth from the very soil—armed groups radically unlike the Roman legion: For seasoned veterans marching forth with elaborately effective disciplines China substituted mass forces drawn directly from the people, as need arose.
In stressing the importance of armies—"the replacement of scholars by soldiers"—Mr. Linebarger remarks that in the military sphere "the Chinese have come of age." "The Chinese military system spread the "knowledge of Western warfare and, modern techniques the ideological experience of modern China."
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