CHINA'S PROBLEMS AND THEIR SOLUTION: By Wang Ching-wel This is
the second Volume in Mr. Tang Leang-li's Chines Today series (Shanghai : China United Press, $4.50, Mei.). Mr. Tang himself introduces it with a, brief but interesting biography of Wang Ching-wei which gives us an aiitlientio picture of the man who is now China's Foreign Minister. Mr. Tang is, of course, the zealous fides Aehates of his hero, and sometimes allows his perspective of history to be distorted by his love. It is hardly true, for instance,,to say that " the history of the Chinese National. Revolution since the death of Dr. Sun is largely the history of Wang Ching-wei's public career." As the winning, but often intransigent, leader of the Left Wing, he has played a part which cannot be ignored. but neither his acts nor his speeches have been decisive in any single crisis for a good many years past. The value of this book lies in Mr. Wang's diagnosis of China's problem: which follows a line well known to every student of the question. But even greater is its significance asevidence of the change, from propaganda to objective realism which has come over the nationaliit mind of China since 1927. Wang Ching-wei is one of the most winsome of Asiatics, and most observers would hitherto have said that his contribution to China's-'development stopped short at the emotional interpre- tation of Chinese feeling. This book shows that he has begun to think. It is therefore a landmark in his own career, and in the hiitory of the he'has done so much to inspire.
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