Beyond Versailles

Tosh Minohara is professor of US–Japan relations at Kobe University.Evan Dawley is associate professor of history at Goucher College.

This groundbreaking volume edited by Tosh Minohara and Evan Dawley helps us overcome all the Eurocentric historical narratives on the moment of 1919 by putting a spotlight on Northeast Asia. The volume makes a persuasive case that seeing 1919 from an East Asian context makes us better understand its global history and its enduring legacies today. Contributors to this volume collectively reorient the way we should think about both the spatialization and the periodization of 1919.

• Introduction: 1919, East Asia, and the Dawning of a New EraPart I: Era of Sovereignty and Nationalism in East AsiaChapter 1: Building China Abroad: May Fourth, Overseas Chinese, and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-StateChapter 2: From Trust to Mistrust: Sino-Japanese Relations after the Versailles SettlementChapter 3: The Rise of a New Generation: May Fourth Intellectual Factionalism and the Attacks on Kang YouweiChapter 4: The Buryat-Mongol National Movement and Japanese Interests in Siberia, 1917–1919Chapter 5: 1919: The Historical Origin of the New Cold War on the Korean PeninsulaPart II: War, Peace, and Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific EraChapter 6: The Elusive Equality: Versailles as a Turning Point in U.S.-Japan Race RelationsChapter 7: Making Peace from the Great War: A Generational Shift in Japanese Diplomacy in 1919Chapter 8: A Lost Chance for Peace: The China Crisis of 1919 and the Debate on Japanese-Chinese Friendship in JapanChapter 9: Naval Powers in the Pacific at the CrossroadsChapter 10: Future War and Future Peace after 1919: Ishiwara Kanji and the Imperial Japanese Army in the Wake of the First World WarChapter 11: Tragic War, Lasting Peace: Japan and the Construction of Global Peace, 1919-1930