As a Chinese member and former officer of the Institute
of Pacific Relations, I feel very grateful to the International
Secretariat of the Institute for publishing this little book
Winning the Peace in the Pacific by my old friend, Pro-
fessor S. R. Chow. In doing so, the Institute is performing
a useful service of rectifying an unfortunate situation in
present-day international thinking, wherein practically all
books and articles on post-war planning and peace problems
have come from Anglo-Saxon writers or European scholars
in exile, but almost none from Chinese authors. This
dearth of authentic presentation of Chinese attitudes and
aspirations regarding the post-war world in general or the
more specific problems of the peace structure in the Pacific
region, has created the erroneous impression that China is
still too deeply engrossed in her hard and little-aided war
to be able to think about the post-war problems and to
present any definitive program for public discussion by
the people of the United Nations. And because China has
not told the outside world what she has been thinking
about these problems, much of the current writing on post-
war problems has suffered from the fact that too little
attention has been paid to the peace objectives of the
Chinese people.

It is to correct this situation and to awaken a new
interest of the American and British public in what the
Chinese people have been thinking on these important
problems that the Institute of Pacific Relations is sponsor-
ing the publication of the views of a thoughtful and for-
ward-looking Chinese scholar who, though not speaking

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