Description:
Asia After Versailles addresses an important watershed for Asian nations - the response to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. It marked the end of a conflict which, although intrinsically European, had globalized the world on many levels and stood at the beginning of a new order that saw the power centre shift towards the US and Asia.
Brief description: Urs Matthias Zachmann is Professor of Modern Japanese History and Culture at Freie Universität Berlin.
Review Quotes: Asia after Versailles is a much needed resource to understand how Asia was affected by the Paris Peace Conference and how Asia, in turn, influenced Versailles... [Its] greatest contribution is through its transnational perspective on Asia during the interwar years.--Guoqi Xu, University of Hong Kong "International Affairs"