[4] The term "Chinese Kuomintang" is not a redundancy; the original is Chung-kuo Kuo-min-tang, "Central-Realm Realm-people-association," and could be translated as the Chinese Nationalist Populist Party, National Democratic Party, the Nation's People's Party, etc. Several Japanese organizations have had exceedingly similar names; hence the formal style for the Kuomintang is always prefaced by China.
[5] Wang Shih-chieh, work cited, p. 649-50.
[6] The Double Five Draft Constitution is to be found in Chinese in Wang Shih-chieh, work cited, and in English in Council of International Affairs, Information Bulletin, Vol. III, No. 10 (April 11, 1937), Nanking; Hsia, C. L., "Background and Features of the Draft Constitution of China"; in Legislative Yüan, "Draft of the Constitution of the Republic of China," Nanking, 1937; in The China Year Book, Shanghai, and The Chinese Year Book, Shanghai and Hong Kong, v.i. and v.d. The latest version of the Draft Constitution is reprinted below. Appendix I (A), p. [283]; the latest Chinese annotated version of this is the Legislative Yüan, Chung-hua Min-kuo Hsien-fa Ts'ao-an Shuo-ming-shu (An Elucidation of the Draft Permanent Constitution of the Chinese Republic), [Chungking], XXIX (1940).
[7] For a critique and appreciation of the final Draft Constitution, see Wu, John C. H., "Notes on the Final Draft Constitution" in Tien Hsia Monthly, Vol. X, No. 5 (May 1940), p. 409-26. (Dr. Wu is one of the most extraordinary personages of the modern world; he has taken all knowledge—East Asiatic and Western—for his province. He writes a spirited, graceful English and is capable of discussing anything from modern politics or abstruse points of Anglo-American law to ancient Chinese hedonism or the philosophical implications of the Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. Dr. Wu, in a bomb-shelter, possesses much of the moral poise and profound personal assurance for which such Westerners as T. S. Eliot seek in vain.) See also Hsia, C. L., "A Comparative Study of China's Draft Constitution with That of Other Modern States," in The China Quarterly, Vol. 2, 1936-7, No. 1 (Summer), p. 89-101 and Hoh Chih-hsiang, "A History of Constitution Making in China," the same, Vol. 1, 1935-6, No. 4 (Summer), p. 105-117.
[8] For a more extended discussion of this point, see the author's The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I, Baltimore, 1937, p. 218 ff., and also p. 96 ff.
[9] See Sun Fo [President of the Legislative Yüan, and son of Sun Yat-sen], "The Spirit of the Draft Permanent Constitution," in The China Quarterly, Vol. V, No. 3 (April 1940), Shanghai, p. 377-84.
[10] See Appendix I (F), p. [318]-[24], below.
[11] See below, p. [106] ff., and Appendix I (G), p. [324].
[12] This constitution is available in Yakhontoff, Victor A., The Chinese Soviets, New York, 1934, p. 217-21, and in Kun, Bela [prefator], Fundamental Laws of the Chinese Soviet Republic, New York, 1934, p. 17-24. The writer has been unable to secure the Chinese text of this document.
[13] China Information Committee, Chungking, News Release, No. 351 (February 25, 1939), p. 2269-71.