Foreword
The China Society presents this summary as an aid to the understanding of the present situation in China.
Dr. Hornbeck, author of "Contemporary Politics in the Far East," Lecturer on History of the Far East at Harvard University, Technical Adviser to the American Delegations at the Paris, the Washington and the Peking Conferences, is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on the politics of the Far East.
A part of this survey appeared in the Bulletin of the Institute of Pacific Relations, January, 1927.
