List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments. Introduction: Asia after Versailles / Urs Matthias Zachmann -- The correlation of crises, 1918-20 / Mark Metzler -- Muslim Asia after Versailles / Cemil Aydin -- From Versailles to Shanghai: pan-Asianist legacies of the Paris Peace Conference and the failure of Asianism from below / Torsten Weber -- A cultural history of diplomacy: reassessing the Japanese "performance" at the Paris Peace Conference / Naoko Shimazu -- India's freedom and the League of Nations: public debates 1919-33 / Maria Framke -- Dashed hopes: Japanese Buddhist perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference / John Lo Breglio -- Particularism and universalism in the New Nationalism of post-Versailles Japan / Kevin M. Doak -- Versailles and the fate of Chinese internationalism: reassessing the anarchist case / Gotelind Mu˜ller -- The impact of Versailles on Chinese nationalism as reflected in Shanghai graphic and urban culture, 1919-31 / Hiroko Sakamoto. Index.
Summary:
The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 marked the end of a conflict which, although intrinsically European, had globalized the world on many levels: politically, as well as economically, culturally and socially. It also stood at the beginning of a new order that saw the power center shift towards the USA and Asia, and whose systemic structures and troubling legacies still remain with us today. This volume traces the complex story of the Asian response to the Conference, an event that acted as an important but neglected watershed for Asian nations. Bringing together an international range of experts in the history of china, Japan, India and the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, this pioneering volume offers a multi-regional and interdisciplinary analysis of the Conference, and demonstrates the importance of Asia in the multifaceted global transformations that followed in its wake.
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