[2] Linebarger, Paul [M. W.], Sun Yat-sen and the Chinese Republic, New York and London, 1925, p. 176; this is the authorized life of Sun Yat-sen, written much as he wished it. The standard critical biography is Sharman, Lyon, Sun Yat-sen: His Life and Its Meaning, New York, 1934. Sun Yat-sen also wrote a number of short autobiographies, some of which are deliberately inexact. Western language material on Sun is surveyed in an annotated bibliography appended to the present author's The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen, Baltimore, 1937, p. 265 ff. A work which has since appeared is "Sagittarius," The Strange Apotheosis of Sun Yat-sen, London, 1939.
[3] Statement to the author by Wên Chung-yao, President of the Legislative Yüan of the Reorganized National Government of Wang Ch'ing-wei, at Nanking, September 5, 1940. Dr. Wên was a classmate of Dr. Sun at Queen's College.
[4] New York, 1922; reissue, 1929.
[5] Linebarger, Paul Myron, Mes Mémoires Abrégés sur les Révolutions de Sun Yat-sen, Paris, 1938, p. 194. Paragraphing deleted in translation from the French.
[6] In the case of Chinese names which are commonly transliterated in an Americanized form, the Western name-order is preserved. According to standard Sinological practice, the three sisters are Sung Ai-ling, Sung Ch'ing-ling, and Sung Mei-ling; their famous brother (T. V. Soong) is Sung Tzŭ-wên.
[7] d'Elia, Paschal M., S. J., The Triple Demism of Sun Yat-sen, Wuch'ang, 1931, p. 36-49, gives an exhaustive analysis of possible translations. Stylistically, the term should be given San Min Chu I as a classical title; san-min chu-i as a noun; and san-min-chu-i when used as an adjective. The first form alone is followed because of its wide currency.
[8] The Analects, Book XIII, Ch. v; Legge, James, The Chinese Classics, Oxford, 1893 [Peiping, 1939], I, p. 93; the word terms has been substituted for names in rendering ming.
[9] d'Elia translation, cited, p. 130-1.
[11] See William, Maurice, Sun Yat-sen vs. Communism, Baltimore, 1932, for an appraisal which stresses the importance and degree of this influence; on the opposite side, see "The Alleged Influence of Maurice William on Sun Yat-sen" by P. C. Huang and W. P. Yuen in T'ien Hsia Monthly, V, 4 (November 1937), p. 349-76.