despite forcing the abdication of the Imperial Court in Peking, the revolution had seized actual power only in the South. Sun did not want to engage in battle with the core of the imperial army, which remained largely intact under Imperial...
Rising powers will want to keep potential revisionist allies close at hand, lest the “status quo” powers turn on it in the future. If a rising power’s legitimations bind itself too closely to existing great powers, what started as a strategic asset can become a noose around the rising ...
however exaggerated has been the emphasis here or the stress there, it has been their sincere and sharply felt propaganda aim to shake, to arouse, the millions of rural China to their responsibilities in society; to awaken them to a belief in human rights, to combat the timidity, passiveness...