China and the Great War - China''s Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization

Klappentext This 2005 book is a full-length study of China's involvement in the conflict from perspectives of international history, using previously unknown archival materials. Zusammenfassung China's role in the First World War has been a curiously neglected topic. This 2005 book is a full-length study of China's involvement in the conflict from perspectives of international history! using previously unknown archival materials. In this account! Professor Xu restores the China war memory into its rightful place. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. The Stage Is Set: 1. China's preparation for entry into the international system; 2. The rise of Chinese internationalism and the new diplomacy; Part II. China Attempts to Join the War: 3. China responses to the outbreak of war; 4. 'Using laborers as soldiers' - an alternative strategy; 5. China's formal entry into the war; Part III. The Great War in Chinese Domestic Politics and Foreign Relations: 6. The war within; 7. The 1919 Paris Peace Conference and China's search for a new world order; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Guoqi Xu, Guoqi (Kalamazoo College Xu, Xu Guoqi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.09.2011
• EAN: 9780521283236
• ISBN: 978-0-521-28323-6
• No. of pages: 342
• Series: Studies in the Social and Cult; Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; China, First World War, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, International Relations, Asian History, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I