V.K. Wellington Koo and the Emergence of Modern China [electronic resource] / Stephen G. Craft.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craft, Stephen G., 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Foreign relations--1912-1949.

China.

Koo, V. K. Wellington, 1888-1985.

Koo, V. K. Wellington.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Chinese diplomat V.K. Wellington Koo (1888-1985) was involved in virtually every foreign and domestic crisis in twentieth-century China. After earning a Ph.D. from Columbia University, Koo entered government service in 1912 intent on revising the unequal treaty system imposed on China in the nineteenth century, believing that breaking the shackles of imperialism would bring China into the ""family of nations.""His pursuit of this nationalistic agenda was immediately interrupted by Chinese civil war and Japanese imperialism during World War I. In the 1930s Koo attempted to use international law

Contents:

The making of a Chinese patriot

China and World War I

Chinese nationalism and treaty revision, 1921-1928

China, Japanese imperialism and collective security, 1931-1937

Sino-Japanese War and the specter of sell-out, 1937-1941

Sino-British tensions, 1941-1944

Sino-American tensions, 1944-1945

Collapse of the Republic of China, 1945-1949.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-319) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-5756-0

OCLC:

607070146