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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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