Asia After Versailles: Asian Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Interwar Order, 1919-33

ISBN-13: 9781474417167 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 256 str.

Urs Matthias Zachmann

Opis

This volume traces the complex story of the Asian response to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, an important but neglected watershed for Asian nations. The Conference 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 centre shift towards the US and Asia, and whose systemic structures and troubling legacies it created still remain, in part, with us today. In this momentous development, Asian countries and people played a significant role that has been much neglected in historical studies so far. Bringing together an international range of experts in the history of China, Japan, India and the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, this pioneering volume demonstrates the importance of Asia in the multifaceted global transformations that revolved around the Paris Peace Conference and its aftermath.

Traditional historical analysis focuses almost exclusively on US and European responses to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the post-war order and often fails to take into account non-western, particularly Asian voices this is the first book to demonstrate the far-reaching Asian dimensions of the impact of Versailles in an unprecedented way making this an invaluable and interdisciplinary resource for academics and researchers in the fields of politics, international relations, area studies and history.

Spis treści

Introduction: Asia After Versailles Urs Matthias Zachmann
Part I
1. The Correlation of Crises, 1918–1920 Mark Metzler
2. Muslim Asia after Versailles Cemil Aydin
3. From Versailles to Shanghai: Pan-Asianist Legacies of the Paris Peace Conference and the Failure of Asianism from Below Torsten Weber
Part II
4. A Cultural History of Diplomacy: Re-assessing the Japanese ‘Performance’ at the Paris Peace Conference Naoko Shimazu
5. India’s Freedom and the League of Nations: Public Debates 1919-33 Maria Framke
6. Dashed Hopes: Japanese Buddhist Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference John LoBreglio
7. Particularism and Universalism in the New Nationalism of Post-Versailles Japan Kevin Doak
8. Versailles and the Fate of Chinese Internationalism: Re-Assessing the Anarchist Case Gotelind Müller
9. The Impact of Versailles on Chinese Nationalism as Reflected in Shanghai Graphic and Urban Culture, 1919-1931 Hiroko Sakamoto