«Son Bun to Gandī. Ryōsha no seijiteki teigen ga icchiten o mīdasenakatta no wa naze ka» (孫文とガンディー。両者の政治的提言が一致点を見いだせなかったのはなぜか, Sun Wen and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: why their two political proposals did not find a point of convergence),

This essay aims to compare the political proposals of Sun Zhongshan and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. These two leaders, so essential to the national liberation movement of their country, have enjoyed little comparison so far. We need to deepen our understanding of the debate made in 1939 by Qian Shifu (钱实甫) in his «Sun Wenism, Leninism, and Gandhism» (孙文主义与列宁主义甘地主义); we ought to go past more recent analysis as those, for instance, by Li Pingmin (李平民) «The socialism as interpreted by Gandhi and Sun Zhongshan» (甘地和孙中山所设想的社会主义), in 1993, by Guo Jinping (郭晋平) «The ideology of Sun Zhongshan and Gandhism: a comparison» (甘地主义与孙中山思想形成诸因素之比较) in 2008, or by Xu Weihong (徐卫洪) «Differences in the economic thought between Gandhi and Sun Zhongshan» (略论甘地和孙中山在经济思想上的分歧), in 2010. Wang Huiyun, in his Discourses on Tradition and modernization : Perspectives of Gandhi and Sun Yat-sen on social change (Maadhyam Book Services, 2001), and Theresa Man Ling Lee, in her article published in 2015 «Modernity and postcolonial nationhood: Revisiting Mahatma Gandhi and Sun Yat-sen a century later» (in Philosophy and Social Criticism), who try to fill the gap left by Tang Wenquan (唐文权) after his «Influence of Gandhi’s noncooperation movement on contemporary China» (甘地两次不合作运动在当年中国的反响) in 1988. For this reason, the essay devotes a special attention to the position of the two leaders towards the nonviolent political actions, and to how they interpreted the nonviolent instruments to help the respective national liberation movements. This is done considering not only the writings by Sun Zhongshan, but also how the Gandhian proposal was perceived by the Chinese intelligentia throughout some articles published in Dongfang zazhi 东方杂志, a review so relevant to modern intellectuals in the first half of the XXth century.