Beyond Versailles
The 1919 Moment and a New Order in East Asia
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 9. November 2020
310 pages
978-1-4985-5447-3 (ISBN)
Description
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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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4985-5447-3 (9781498554473)
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11/2020
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Persons
Tosh Minohara is professor of US-Japan relations at Kobe University.
Evan Dawley is associate professor of history at Goucher College.
Evan Dawley is associate professor of history at Goucher College.
Content
Introduction: 1919, East Asia, and the Dawning of a New Era
Part I: Era of Sovereignty and Nationalism in East Asia
Chapter 1: Building China Abroad: May Fourth, Overseas Chinese, and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State
Chapter 2: From Trust to Mistrust: Sino-Japanese Relations after the Versailles Settlement
Chapter 3: The Rise of a New Generation: May Fourth Intellectual Factionalism and the Attacks on Kang Youwei
Chapter 4: The Buryat-Mongol National Movement and Japanese Interests in Siberia, 1917-1919
Chapter 5: 1919: The Historical Origin of the New Cold War on the Korean Peninsula
Part II: War, Peace, and Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific Era
Chapter 6: The Elusive Equality: Versailles as a Turning Point in U.S.-Japan Race Relations
Chapter 7: Making Peace from the Great War: A Generational Shift in Japanese Diplomacy in 1919
Chapter 8: A Lost Chance for Peace: The China Crisis of 1919 and the Debate on Japanese-Chinese Friendship in Japan
Chapter 9: Naval Powers in the Pacific at the Crossroads
Chapter 10: Future War and Future Peace after 1919: Ishiwara Kanji and the Imperial Japanese Army in the Wake of the First World War
Chapter 11: Tragic War, Lasting Peace: Japan and the Construction of Global Peace, 1919-1930
Part I: Era of Sovereignty and Nationalism in East Asia
Chapter 1: Building China Abroad: May Fourth, Overseas Chinese, and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State
Chapter 2: From Trust to Mistrust: Sino-Japanese Relations after the Versailles Settlement
Chapter 3: The Rise of a New Generation: May Fourth Intellectual Factionalism and the Attacks on Kang Youwei
Chapter 4: The Buryat-Mongol National Movement and Japanese Interests in Siberia, 1917-1919
Chapter 5: 1919: The Historical Origin of the New Cold War on the Korean Peninsula
Part II: War, Peace, and Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific Era
Chapter 6: The Elusive Equality: Versailles as a Turning Point in U.S.-Japan Race Relations
Chapter 7: Making Peace from the Great War: A Generational Shift in Japanese Diplomacy in 1919
Chapter 8: A Lost Chance for Peace: The China Crisis of 1919 and the Debate on Japanese-Chinese Friendship in Japan
Chapter 9: Naval Powers in the Pacific at the Crossroads
Chapter 10: Future War and Future Peace after 1919: Ishiwara Kanji and the Imperial Japanese Army in the Wake of the First World War
Chapter 11: Tragic War, Lasting Peace: Japan and the Construction of Global Peace, 1919-1930
