Sun Yat-Sen and the Origins of the Chinese Revolution

Reviews

"Sun Yat·sen's early life is, of course, a thriller. Few fathers of countries have had so many dangerous adventures, or embellished them so artfully afterward. Of the various books that have existed in English for many years, none has used the wealth of Chinese material recently made available to scholars.  In seizing this golden opportunity, Harold Schiffrin makes the invaluable contribution of a sociological analysis of the various groups in the revolutionary movement-secret societies, overseas Chinese, students abroad, new army officers, and all the rest-as well as of the ideas and values by which they acted. This book is thus by far the most exhaustive and authentic account of an important man during a crucial period, and it is at the same time interestingly analytical."--John K. Fairbank, Harvard University "Schriffrin's volume, covering Sun's first forty years, is a milestone in Western scholarship. . . Should remain the standard account of Sun Yat·sen's young manhood."--Book World "The first major scholarly work in English to appear on Sun. An indispensable major work of scholarship which is un likely to be superseded in this century."--Pacific Affairs