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Record Nr.

UNINA9910422645203321

Autore

Tang Qi-hua

Titolo

Chinese Diplomacy and the Paris Peace Conference / / Qi-hua Tang; Zhonghu Yan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

981-15-5636-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 329 p. 20 illus., 14 illus. in color.)

Collana

China Connections, , 2662-7868

Disciplina

818.5402

Soggetti

Diplomacy

History of China

International relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- China’s Preparation for the Peace Conference during WWI -- Preparation for the Peace Conference after the Ceasefire of WWI -- The Diplomacy during the Peace Conference -- Refusal to Sign the Peace Treaty -- After the Refusal -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines Republican China’s diplomatic strategies and engagement, and power reconfiguration in East Asia after 1914. Drawing on a vast trove of primary sources, including newly declassified archival materials, the book offers not only a richly-informed account of how the Beiyang government conducted diplomacy at the Paris Peace Conference but also new insights into why. Calling into question such long-held beliefs that the Beiyang government was inadequately prepared for the Conference, was treasonous in urging the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, and that its behavior at the Conference amounted to a thorough failure of diplomacy, the author tries to make a case for a much more nuanced re-interpretation and re-evaluation of this critical period in the country’s diplomatic history.