Note 1 — Chapter III · BATTLING CREEDS
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For the military aspects see below, pp. 108 ff.; for the immediate governmental aspects see below, pp. 167 ff.
2. The best account of the internal politics of the Kuomintang between 1927 and 1933 is to be found in Gustav Amann, Chiang Kaishek und die Regierung der Kuomintang in China, Berlin and Heidelberg, 1936.
3. See below, pp. 172 ff.
4. See above, pp. 51 ff.
5. Lin Yutang, Letters of a Chinese Amazon and War-Time Essays, p. vi, Shanghai, 1930.
6. See below, pp. 182 ff.
7. See below, p. 184 ff.
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.
13. See below, pp. 184 ff.