Picnics Prohibited: Diplomacy in a Chaotic China during the First World War: Penguin Specials
Author: Wood, Frances
ISBN: 9780143800330
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2014
Pages: 124
Dimensions: 184mm x 119mm x 9mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
The ripple effects of the First World War came at an inopportune time for the infant Chinese republic. The country had joined a number of international organisations and ratified the Hague Conventions, but found its diplomatic efforts hampered by its young, inexperienced leadership, its factional regional divisions and its foreign-controlled treaty ports and concessions. Unfortunately for the Chinese, representatives of combatant nations navigated a diplomatic tightrope between carrying out their patriotic duty to support war efforts and making sure their 'hosts', the Chinese, did not take advantage of the turbulence to upset the colonial pecking order.
ISBN: 9780143800330
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2014
Pages: 124
Dimensions: 184mm x 119mm x 9mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
The ripple effects of the First World War came at an inopportune time for the infant Chinese republic. The country had joined a number of international organisations and ratified the Hague Conventions, but found its diplomatic efforts hampered by its young, inexperienced leadership, its factional regional divisions and its foreign-controlled treaty ports and concessions. Unfortunately for the Chinese, representatives of combatant nations navigated a diplomatic tightrope between carrying out their patriotic duty to support war efforts and making sure their 'hosts', the Chinese, did not take advantage of the turbulence to upset the colonial pecking order.
