The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen

An Exposition of the Sun Min Chu I

By

Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, Ph.D.

The Department of Government, Harvard University

Greenwood Press, Publishers

Westport, Connecticut

Copyright 1937, The Johns Hopkins Press

First Greenwood Reprinting 1973

Contents

• Foreword.
• Preface.
• Introduction.
• The Problem of the San Min Chu I
• The Materials.
• The Necessity of an Exposition.
• Chapter I.The Ideological, Social, and Political Background.
• The Rationale of the Readjustment.
• Nation and State in Chinese Antiquity.
• The Theory of the Confucian World-Society.
• The Chinese World-Society of Eastern Asia.
• The Impact of the West.
• The Continuing Significance of the Background.
• Chapter II The Theory of Nationalism.
• The Emergence of the Chinese Race-Nation.
• The Necessity of Nationalism.
• The Return to the Old Morality.
• The Return to the Ancient Knowledge.
• Western Physical Science in the New Ideology.
• The Consequences of the Nationalist Ideology.
• Chapter III.The Theory of Democracy.
• Democracy in the Old World-Society.
• Five Justifications of a Democratic Ideology.
• The Three Natural Classes of Men.
• Ch'üan and Nêng.
• The Democratic Machine State.
• Democratic-Political Versus Ideological Control.
• Chapter IV. The Theory of Min Shêng
• Min Shêng in the Ideology.
• The Economic Background of Min Shêng
• The Three Meanings of Min Shêng
• Western Influences: Henry George, Marxism and Maurice William.
• Min Shêng as a Socio-Economic Doctrine.
• Min Shêng as an Ethical Doctrine.
• Chapter V.The Programs of Nationalism.
• Kuomintang.
• The Dragon Throne and State Allegiance.
• Economic Nationalism.
• Political Nationalism for National Autonomy.
• The Class War of the Nations.
• Racial Nationalism and Pan-Asia.
• The General Program of Nationalism.
• Chapter VI.The Programs of Democracy.
• The Three Stages of Revolution.
• The Adjustment of Democracy to China.
• The Four Powers.
• The Five Rights.
• Confederacy Versus Centralism.
• The Hsien in a Democracy.
• The Family System.
• Chapter VII. The Programs of Min Shêng
• The Three Programs of Min Shêng
• The National Economic Revolution.
• The Industrial Revolution.
• The Social Revolution.
• The Utopia of Min Shêng
• Bibliography.
• Chinese-English Glossary.
• Index.
• Footnotes