Abstract:

The newspaper office of Minli Newspaper caught fire on March 6 1911. In order toresponding to the emergency the principal issued handwritten lithographic copies for publishing asscheduled which are known as Minli Newspaper in distress . Four argumentative articles which authoris Song Jiaoren and using the alias as Yufu were published in these copies they are respectively On theSadness of Yunnan Border Affairs 3 Refusing to Serve as Prime Minister On the Current DiplomaticSituation of China and On the Undetermined Boundary Zone in Southern Yunnan none of which hasbeen found in Song Jiaoren’s monograph or related research works. At present various versions of theSong Jiaoren Collection include Song Jiaoren’s argumentative articles from March 1911 which run fromMarch 4th to March 20th with a 15 day gap from March 5th to 19th. These four lost articles which werepublished on March 10 14-16 15 and 19 1911 respectively could partially fill this gap and they havegreat literature value for a complete understanding of Song Jiaoren’s thinking on frontier historygeography and current affairs and politics before the 1911 Revolution.

Key words: Minli Newspaper in distress, Song Jiaoren, Four lost articles