Picnics Prohibited : Diplomacy in a Chaotic China during the First World War: Penguin Specials - Frances Wood

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Picnics Prohibited

Diplomacy in a Chaotic China during the First World War: Penguin Specials

By: Frances Wood

eBook | 25 August 2014

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The ripple effects of the First World War came at an inopportune time for the infant Chinese republic. The country had joined a number of international organisations and ratified the Hague Conventions, but found its diplomatic efforts hampered by its young, inexperienced leadership, its factional regional divisions and its foreign-controlled treaty ports and concessions.

Unfortunately for the Chinese, representatives of combatant nations navigated a diplomatic tightrope between carrying out their patriotic duty to support war efforts and making sure their 'hosts', the Chinese, did not take advantage of the turbulence to upset the colonial pecking order.

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