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Chinese Diplomacy and the Paris Peace Conference [electronic resource] / by Qi-hua Tang.

By: Tang, Qi-hua [author.]Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service)Material type: Text

TextSeries: China ConnectionsPublisher: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020Edition: 1st ed. 2020Description: VI, 329 p. 20 illus., 14 illus. in color. online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789811556364Subject(s): China—History | Diplomacy | International relations | History of China | Diplomacy | Foreign PolicyAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 951 LOC classification: DS701-799.9Online resources: Click here to access online

Contents:

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.

In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: 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.

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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.