[5.] Lin Yutang, Letters of a Chinese Amazon and War-Time Essays, p. vi, Shanghai, 1930.
[8.] On the Sian incident see General and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, General Chiang Kai-shek, Garden City, 1937; James M. Bertram, First Act in China, New York, 1938, an account by an Australian newspaperman in Sian at the time; and Edgar Snow, Red Star over China, New York, 1938—an extraordinarily valuable work on all phases of Chinese Communism, by an observer of great insight and acuteness.
[9.] See the references below, p. [190], n. 10.
[10.] See Yoshi S. Kuno, Japanese Expansion on the Asiatic Continent, vol. I, Berkeley, 1937, for an authoritative description of early Sino-Japanese relations. Chinese records of the time of Christ describe the payment of tribute by Japanese chieftains. The most explicit acknowledgment of Chinese suzerainty occurred in the time of Yoshemitsu, the third Ashikaga shogun (see Kuno, pp. 92-93).
[11.] The Japanese patriotic leagues are described in Kenneth Colegrove, Militarism in Japan, Boston, 1936.
[12.] Wang Ming, China Can Win! p. 44, New York, 1938. Wang Ming is a Chinese expert on Marxism residing in the U. S. S. R.