The International Development of China. By Sun Yat-sen. ShOTU7 Notices
(Hutchinson. 75. 6c1.)
Boni the Chinese Ministry of Information and the publishers who have acted for them, are to be commended for the republication in handy form, and at a reasonable price, of this well-known book, which had become difficult to get yet had increased, rather than
diminished, in importance. For China after this wat will occupy a very different position, both politically and economically, from the one she held after the last, when she entered upon an unhappy period of anti-foreign feeling and civil strife. These rendered co. operation with her extremely difficult and, though there was a con. siderable increase of foreign investment, schemes as large as Sue Yat-sen envisaged were out of the question. They remain unlikely still to be realised in anything approaching the fullness which he gave them, at all events for a good many years. Yet there can be little doubt that there will be considerable railway and harbout development, and that Sun's ambitious blue-print will be convertible into lesser but important projects. Now is the time for a re- examination of his ideas in relation to work completed and planned since his death in 1925. For the present Chinese Government is very much in earnest about post-war reconstruction, and genuinely anxious for foreign, and not least for British, co-operation.
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