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ISBN10: 0521842123, ISBN13: 9780521842129, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover First Edition Hardcover, xiv + 316 pages, NOT ex-library. Gentle handling wear, book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Dust jacket shows regular shelfwear, little edgewear. -- Contents: Introduction [China's Great War: an unwritten chapter in world history; International history in the study of Chinese national identity; Great War in Chinese history; Tragedy and paradoxes of the war in China and the world]; Part I The stage is set -- 1 China's preparation for entry into the international system [Clash of two world orders; From China as Middle Kingdom to China as nation-state; National identity and reshaping Chinese memory; Rise of a new public; 1911 Revolution and the sense of a new China]; 2 The rise of Chinese internationalism and the new diplomacy [Nationalism and the blossoming of Chinese public opinion; Nationalism as internationalism; China's foreign policy public; Advent of the new diplomacy; A new world order as ideal and reality: the coming of the Great War]; Part II China attempts to join the war -- 3 Chinese responses to the outbreak of war ['Weiji' and China's initial response; Twenty-one Demands and their impact; Drive to attend the postwar peace conference; China again attempts to join the war]; 4 'Using laborers as soldiers': China's alternative strategy ...
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ISBN10: 0521842123, ISBN13: 9780521842129, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover Like New
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