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Sun Zongli san min zhuyi hebian "President Sun's 'Three Principles of the People'".
1924rif. 180007China: Zhongguo guomindang nanyang zongzhibu c. 1924. A fundamental text of modern Chinese political thought A rare early edition of the official Kuomintang anthology of Sun Yat-Sen's 1924 lectures on the 'Three Principles of the People' which became the defining exposition of his famous political theory following his death the following year. This example was issued by the party's Nanyang headquarters the branch covering the Chinese south coast and south-east Asia the sheets likely printed in China. The lectures delivered between January and August at Guangdong Higher Teacher's College "were given on Sunday mornings to audiences of two thousand to three thousand people. The audience packed into the hall consisted of government and party officials students and 'people from all walks of life.' Sun's listeners were generally attentive though sometimes distracted by fatigue or hunger one attendee recalled rushing to the dining hall once Sun concluded his remarks for the day" Strand pp. 255-6. Of the 16 talks 6 each were devoted to the principles of "nationalism" and "democracy" and 4 expounded on "the people's livelihood." They crystallized his three decades of political theorizing and activism serving as a last testament that could be readily used and abused by the different political factions that claimed throughout the 20th century to be the true custodians of his legacy. As Sun spoke without a prepared text his talks were transcribed by Zou Lu a Kuomintang official. After Sun had made edits and corrections the transcripts were issued separately one booklet per principle and then as one volume at the end of 1924. Institutional holdings of early Kuomintang printings of the lectures are low. For the booklets the National Library of China holds a copy of each with different paginations to the relevant sections here. The present edition was reproduced in Volume 45 of the 2023 Taibei 268-volume edition of Sun's writings suggesting copies are held in the depositories of Sun's writings and manuscripts in Taiwan and Guangzhou but otherwise it is entirely untraced. Around the time of Sun's death Shanghai's Minzhi Shuju published a trade edition of the lectures. This is a little more common institutionally. Octavo 245 x 170 mm. Vignettes and diagrams in text; text in Chinese. Original buff wrappers later brown paper backstrip and reinforcement to front cover front wrapper lettered in black. Contemporary red ink stamp on front cover; mid-century purple ink annotations on rear wrapper and internally. Wear and soiling contents browned as usual for paper of this period: a very good copy showing heavy signs of use. Marie-Claire Bergère Sun Yat-sen 1998; David Strand An Unfinished Republic: Leading by Word and Deed in Modern China 2011. unknown
Peter Harrington · Regno Unito10.000,00 £≈ 11.943,44 €
