Note 3 — Chapter VII · GOVERNING INSTITUTIONS OF THE JAPANESE AND PRO-JAPANESE

It is unfortunate that work on the nature of old Far Eastern international relations has no more than just begun. Descriptions from the viewpoint of Western international law often possess the unreal lucidity of dialectical materialism or of theosophy, since it is necessary to read into Chinese and other Far Eastern political institutions the characteristic features of a European invention—the juridical, omnicompetent, secular, territorially limited state. See Djang Chu, The Chinese Suzerainty, unpublished doctoral dissertation, the Johns Hopkins University, 1935; Nelson, Melvin Frederick, The International Status of Korea, 1876-1910 unpublished doctoral dissertation, Duke University, 1939, particularly Part I, "The International Society of Confucian Monarchies" and Part II, "Korea in Conflicting Societies of Nations"; both attempt to reconstruct the working Asiatic theory in terms comprehensible to the West. Clyde, Paul H., United States Policy Toward China, Durham, 1940, Section XXIV, gives a succinct statement and relevant American public documents.