V.K. Wellington Koo and the emergence of Modern China / Stephen G. Craft.

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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; A Note on Chinese-English Transliteration; List of Abbreviations; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; 1. The Making of a Chinese Patriot; 2. China and World War I; 3. Chinese Nationalism and Treaty Revision, 1921-1928; 4. China, Japanese Imperialism, and Collective Security, 1931-1937; 5. Sino-Japanese War and the Specter of Sellout, 1937-1941; 6. Sino-British Tensions, 1941-1944; 7. Sino-American Tensions, 1944-1945; 8. Collapse of the ROC, 1945-1949; 9. The ROC on Taiwan and the Early Cold War; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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.

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