{"product_id":"beyond-versailles-9781498554466","title":"Beyond Versailles","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: 1919, East Asia, and the Dawning of a New Era\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Era of Sovereignty and Nationalism in East Asia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Building China Abroad: May Fourth, Overseas Chinese, and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: From Trust to Mistrust: Sino-Japanese Relations after the Versailles Settlement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: The Rise of a New Generation: May Fourth Intellectual Factionalism and the Attacks on Kang Youwei\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: The Buryat-Mongol National Movement and Japanese Interests in Siberia, 1917–1919\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: 1919: The Historical Origin of the New Cold War on the Korean Peninsula\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: War, Peace, and Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific Era\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: The Elusive Equality: Versailles as a Turning Point in U.S.-Japan Race Relations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Making Peace from the Great War: A Generational Shift in Japanese Diplomacy in 1919\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: A Lost Chance for Peace: The China Crisis of 1919 and the Debate on Japanese-Chinese Friendship in Japan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Naval Powers in the Pacific at the Crossroads\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Future War and Future Peace after 1919: Ishiwara Kanji and the Imperial Japanese Army in the Wake of the First World War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Tragic War, Lasting Peace: Japan and the Construction of Global Peace, 1919-1930\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040763674967,"sku":"9781498554466","price":97.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498554466.jpg?v=1750947764","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-versailles-9781498554466","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}