ABSTRACT
A century later the Chinese repaired the Centurion of Captain George Anson, only to have the importunate fellow sail back and demand provisions after he had dangerously goaded the Spaniards by seizing the treasure-laden Acapulco galleon. Commerce was grotesquely lopsided, with the barbarians from the West purchasing mounting quantities of tea, silk, lacquer, and rhubarb and paying for them in cash, since the Chinese wanted to buy little or nothing in return. If Yuan Shih-k'ai was created in the image of the ambitious warlords of China's turbulent past, Sun Yat-sen was the product of China's turbulent present. He demanded a republic, but a republic based on an alloy of American and European concepts recast in a Chinese mold and embodied in his famous "Three Principles"–Nationalism, Democracy, the People's Livelihood. Democracy would be practiced in accordance with the principles not of Marx but of Montesquieu–II faut que le pouvoir arrete le pouvoir.
