Asia after Versailles : : Asian Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Interwar Order, 1919-33 / / Urs Matthias Zachmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Zachmann, Urs Matthias,
• MitwirkendeR: Aydin, Cemil,; Doak, Kevin,; Framke, Maria,; LoBreglio, John,; Metzler, Mark,; Müller, Gotelind,; Sakamoto, Hiroko,; Shimazu, Naoko,; Weber, Torsten,; Zachmann, Urs,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh East Asian Studies : EEAS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 16 B/W illustrations

Traces the complex and multifaceted story of the Asian response to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919Asia After Versailles addresses an important but neglected watershed for Asian nations - the response to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. 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. Asian countries and people played a significant but so far largely neglected role in this momentous development. 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 and the interwar 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. Key FeaturesOffers a multi-regional and interdisciplinary analysis of the global impact of the Paris Peace settlementTakes account of non-western voices in the response to the 1919 settlementBrings together a range of internationally renowned experts in the history of China, Japan, India and the Ottoman empireAnticipates and informs the debate on the Peace Conference and the League of Nations for the upcoming centennial in 2019/2020

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Asia After Versailles -- Contributors -- Part I -- 1. The Correlation of Crises, 1918–20 -- 2 Muslim Asia after Versailles -- 3 From Versailles to Shanghai: Pan-Asianist Legacies of the Paris Peace Conference and the Failure of Asianism from Below -- Part II -- 4 A Cultural History of Diplomacy: Reassessing the Japanese ‘Performance’ at the Paris Peace Conference -- 5 India’s Freedom and the League of Nations: Public Debates 1919–33 -- 6 Dashed Hopes: Japanese Buddhist Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference -- 7 Particularism and Universalism in the New Nationalism of Post-Versailles Japan -- 8 Versailles and the Fate of Chinese Internationalism: Reassessing the Anarchist Case -- 9 The Impact of Versailles on Chinese Nationalism as Reflected in Shanghai Graphic and Urban Culture, 1919–31 -- Index