The Deluge by Adam Tooze

Author:Adam Tooze [Tooze, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2014-10-20T04:00:00+00:00

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Compliance in Asia

At the signing ceremony on 28 June 1919 the Chinese were the only delegation to stay away. Since the first week of May the Versailles conference had reduced the largest country in the world to uproar. The transfer by the conference of Germany’s Shandong concession to Japan was to go down in the epic of modern Chinese nationalism as a founding moment. China became at once the victim of both Japanese aggression and Western hypocrisy.1 But this morality tale of Chinese martyrdom and Japanese aggression was always incomplete. The high stakes involved for both sides had been made evident by the crisis precipitated by China’s entry into the war in 1917 and the fraught politics of the Siberian intervention. The attempt to make peace in 1919 forced basic questions about Asia’s future back onto the global agenda.

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