The Chinese Revolution

This is the story of the Pacific and its people, of the peaceful sea and the lands and blinds its touches, and their meaning to us and to the generations to come. The Pacific Story, presented by the National Broadcasting Company and dedicated to a full understanding of the vast Pacific Basin.

This broadcast series comes to you as another public service, with drama of the past and present and commentary by Dr. Youshan Han, a polity beyond China and associate professor of history, University of California at Los Angeles.

The Chinese Revolution, a peace-loving people, has a history punctuated with revolutions. For 50 years now, China has been in the throes of revolutions.

The Chinese people in their struggles to free themselves of corruption and weakness first threw off the oak of their Manchu rulers, and for the past third of a century have been striving for national reconstruction.

The road ahead is difficult, and the end is not yet. China's revolution is not yet resolved. It is a many full struggle for reconstruction. Generalissimo Zhongkai Shek has said, our task of national revolution is yet to be completed.

The Chinese revolution is still in progress, reaching back 50 years to the Sino-Japanese War. In 1895, China was defeated in the Sino-Japanese War. As a result of the humiliating peace, the revolutionary movement which had been stirring undercover for some time began to smolder.

At Canton in a shabby office on the side street. Is there any news of the shipment, Dr. Swann? Not yet, Lou Hauden. You think anything has happened to them? All the previous shipments from Hong Kong got here?

But these pistols are long overdue. They should have been here a week ago. We are in need of all 600 of the pistol. A first shipment of pistols came through. The rifles. The dynamite came through.