50.
51.
oppressed by Foreign Powers and the one felt the best need for a
revolutionary change of China for the attempt to build a strong
China.
Until now, hundreds of official documents are still
produced to condemn Ching for failure to protect China and her
people, and at the same time, to challenge PRC on the issue of
protection of Overseas Chinese.
For the details of Ching-Dutch negotiations and agreement over the
issue of nationality of Chinese in Indonesia, see MacNair Op. cit.
pp. 105-112.
For more information about the view of protection of Overseas
Chinese in Indonesia pressed by Ching's high-ranking officers, see
Ching-chi Wai-chao Shih-liao (History Materials Concerning Foreign
Relations of the Ching Period). Taiwan: Wan Hoi Publishing
Society, 1963 Vol. VIII,
52. For more detailed position of Kuomintang, see Chiu Jit Ching,
1420
) On the Protection of Overseas Chinese (
(華僑保護論)
53.
54.
55.
56.
57.
Taiwan: Overseas News Agency 1941, pp. 54-57.
For details, see footnote 30.
Ibid.
This observation was made by earlier scholars also, for example,
see MacNair, Op. cit. p. 129.
This judgement was made by various scholars, such as MacNair and
even by Ching envoy, such as Kuo Shong Tao and Hsueh Fock Chen.
(For Kuo and Hsueh views, see Ching-chi Wai-chao Shih-liao Volumn
11 p. 13 & Vol. 83 p. 37)
See Tsai Chu-fung, "Chinese Nationality Law 1909" in American
Journal of International Law 1910, vol. 4 pp. 404-411.
58.
MacNair, Op. cit. Chapter 4.
59. Ibid. p. 115.
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