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Beyond Versailles

The 1919 Moment and a New Order in East Asia
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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.
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
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