This edited collection examines the effects of the Great War and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in East Asia. Contributors to this collection highlight how Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Mongolian groups and individuals actively sought to envision a global order in which the center of gravity lay in the Western Pacific, not the Northern Atlantic.
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This edited collection examines the fundamental role East Asians played in reshaping the world order during the interwar period. The contributors argue that Japan, China, Korea, and Mongolia sought to redefine the concept of sovereignty to advance their own interests after the Treaty of Versailles was signed.
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Introduction: 1919, East Asia, and the Dawning of a New EraPart I: Era of Sovereignty and Nationalism in East AsiaChapter 1: Building China Abroad: May Fourth, Overseas Chinese, and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-StateChapter 2: From Trust to Mistrust: Sino-Japanese Relations after the Versailles SettlementChapter 3: The Rise of a New Generation: May Fourth Intellectual Factionalism and the Attacks on Kang YouweiChapter 4: The Buryat-Mongol National Movement and Japanese Interests in Siberia, 1917–1919Chapter 5: 1919: The Historical Origin of the New Cold War on the Korean PeninsulaPart II: War, Peace, and Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific EraChapter 6: The Elusive Equality: Versailles as a Turning Point in U.S.-Japan Race RelationsChapter 7: Making Peace from the Great War: A Generational Shift in Japanese Diplomacy in 1919Chapter 8: A Lost Chance for Peace: The China Crisis of 1919 and the Debate on Japanese-Chinese Friendship in JapanChapter 9: Naval Powers in the Pacific at the CrossroadsChapter 10: Future War and Future Peace after 1919: Ishiwara Kanji and the Imperial Japanese Army in the Wake of the First World WarChapter 11: Tragic War, Lasting Peace: Japan and the Construction of Global Peace, 1919-1930
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781498554466
Publisert
2020-11-09
Utgiver
Vendor
Lexington Books
Vekt
626 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
161 mm
Dybde
29 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
310

Biographical note

Tosh Minohara is professor of US–Japan relations at Kobe University.

Evan Dawley is associate professor of history at Goucher College.