THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMY MAISON DES SCIENCES DE L'HOMME S: MATÉRIAUX POUR L'ÉTUDE DE L'EXTRÊME-ORIENT MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAIN Collection publiée par le Centre de Documentation sur l'Ex- trême-Orient (Secteur Chine) de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Vie Section de l'École Pratique des Hau- tes Études, en collaboration avec la Section des Études Chi- noises de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l'Uni- versité de Paris, le Centre d'Étude des Relations Internatio- nales de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, le Centre d'Études Chinoises et le Centre de Linguistique Chi- noise de la Vie Section de l'École Pratique des Hautes Études. TEXTES 6 1968 MOUTON & CO THE HAGUE - PARIS TSOU JUNG THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMY A Chinese Nationalist Tract of 1903 Introduction and translation with notes by JOHN LUST 1968 MOUTON & CO THE HAGUE - PARIS © MOUTON & CO, MAISON DES SCIENCES DE L'HOMME, 1968 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I have to express my thanks to Mr. K. T. Fan of the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies for a good deal of help on the everyday vocabulary and background of the text. Also to Mrs. Y.C. Liu, lecturer in Chinese, for information on echoes of popu- lar lore which otherwise would have escaped me. I should add that I asked her help on a few points only, and therefore I have not exhausted the possibilities of this stratum of meaning. However, I hope that the reader will be able to get a reasonable impression of the richness of a text which mingled orthodox literary styles and allusions with oratory and recollections of popular literature with a complete disdain for conventional models. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 Background 3 2 Biography of Tsou Jung 18 3 Revolution and tradition in The Revolutionary Army 24 4 The history and sources of The Revolutionary Army 40 5 The publishing history of The Revolutionary Army 44 6 Summary of the argument 46 TRANSLATION OF THE TEXT Preface of Chang Ping-lin 51 Foreword of the author 56 Chapter 1 Introduction 58 Chapter 2 Origins of revolution 65 Chapter 3 Revolutionary education 99 Chapter 4 For revolution race must be clearly distin- guished 106 Chapter 5 That revolution must first remove ingrown slavishness 113 Chapter 6 The purport of revolutionary independence 122 Chapter 7 Conclusion 126 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX 129 INDEX OF NAMES, TERMS, ETC. FOR WHICH THE CHI- NESE DOES NOT APPEAR IN THE TEXT 132 BIBLIOGRAPHY 135 GENERAL INDEX 147 TEXT OF THE HONG KONG EDITION OF 1903 153 Introduction