[:en]The Republic[:zh]The Republic

At War’s End: an academic GI in Nanking

Frederick W. Mote In the following, the noted historian F.W. Mote describes his arrival in Nanjing as a U.S. Army interpreter shortly following the Japanese surrender; popular attitudes towards Japan and the puppet administration of Wang Jingwei in the immediate aftermath of the occupation; and, his experiences as a history student at the University of Nanking in 1947-1948.… Read

Whither the Nanking Government?

Mao Zedong 南京政府向何处去？ 4 April 1949 Two roads are open to the Nanking Kuomintang government and its military and administrative personnel. Either they cling to the Chiang Kai-shek clique of war criminals and its master, US imperialism, that is, continue to be the enemy of the people and so perish together with the Chiang Kai-shek clique of war criminals in the People’s War of Liberation.… Read

Farewell, Leighton Stuart!

Mao Zedong 别了，司徒雷登 18 August 1949 It is understandable that the date chosen for the publication of the US White Paper was 5 August, a time when Leighton Stuart[1] had departed from Nanking for Washington but had not yet arrived there, since Leighton Stuart is a symbol of the complete defeat of the US policy of aggression.… Read

Light Returns 光復

The historian Peter Zarrow has attempted to identify just when China’s dynastic history ended and its republican era began: Symbolically, the Republic of China was founded several times. Self-chosen provincial representatives met in Nanjing and proclaimed the Republic on January 1, 1912.… Read

1925-1928: Enshrining the Father of the Republic

Rudolf G. Wagner The following study titled ‘Ritual, Architecture, Politics, and Publicity During the Republic: Enshrining Sun Yat-sen’ is reproduced with the kind permission of the author. It originally appeared in Jeffrey W.… Read