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Editor: Jan Schmidt, Katja Schmidtpott

Publication Date: November 2020

Publisher: Campus Verlag

Description

Though when people discuss World War I, they usually center on the fighting in Europe, it truly was a global war. This book examines the role of East Asia in the conflict. It looks at how East Asian commentators saw and interpreted the war, both in Europe and elsewhere, and what lessons they drew from the experience for their own societies. What influence did World War I have on East Asian visions of the world order? Presenting scholarship by a number of East Asian authors in English for the first time, the book greatly expands our understanding of World War I and its effects.

Contents

Acknowledgements
The East Asian Dimension of the First World War: An Introduction

I. The First World War and East Asian Thought
The First World War in East Asian Thought: As Seen from Japan
The First World War and Its Impact on Chinese Concepts of Modernity

II. The War and East Asia in the Mass Media
The Japanese Press and Japan’s Entrance into the First World War
The “Yellow Monkey”: Japan’s Image during the First World War as Seen on German Picture Postcards
The First World War and Japanese Cinema: From Actuality to Propaganda

III. Political and Economic Entanglements
The Outbreak of the First World War and the Korean Independence Movement: Two Strategies Regarding the Twenty-One Demands on China
Japanese Loan Policy to China during the First World War: Shoda Kazue and the Domestic Political Background of the Nishihara Loans
The First World War and Chinese-American Economic Networks
German-Japanese-US Mutual Perceptions and Diplomatic Initiatives over Mexico: New Perspectives on the Zimmermann Telegram

IV. Warfare and Mobilisation in Europe and in the US as Studied in Japan
Lessons Learned: Japanese Bureaucrats and the First World War
The Japanese Army’s Studies of Germany during the First World War and Its Preparations of a System of General National Mobilisation
Japanese Army Artillery and Engineering Officers’ Study Visits to Europe and the “Japanese-German War”

V. Individual Experiences: POWs, Civilian Internees and Chinese Workers
The Treatment of German Prisoners of War in Japan in the Global Context of the First World War
The Prisoner-Of-War Camp at Aonogahara near Kobe: The Austro-Hungarian Empire in Miniature
Japanese Civilians in Germany at the Outbreak of the First World War
The British Recruitment Campaign for the Chinese Labour Corps during the First World War and the Shandong Workers’ Motives to Enroll

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