Note 1 — Chapter I · THE CONSTITUTION
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On the Manchu constitutional programs, see Columbia University Studies in Political Science, Vol. XL, No. 1: Yen, Hawkling L., "A Survey of Constitutional Development in China"; Vinacke, Harold Monk, Modern Constitutional Development in China, Princeton, 1920; Cameron, Meribeth, The Reform Movement in China, 1898-1912, Stanford University, 1931; and Hsieh, Pao Chao, The Government of China (1644-1911), Baltimore, 1925. The earlier constitutional developments under the Republic are summarized in Escarra, Jean, Le Droit Chinois, Paris and Peiping, 1936, which includes excellent bibliographies; Tsêng Yu-hao, Modern Chinese Legal and Political Philosophy, Shanghai, 1934, Ch. VI, "The Law of Modern Chinese Constitutions"; a characteristic proposal for a pre-Kuomintang constitution is Bau, Mingchien Joshua, Modern Democracy in China, Shanghai, 1927; and the works of Lum, Wu, and Linebarger, cited above.