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Guoqi Xu
Cambridge University Press

China and the Great War: China's Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization

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AuthorGuoqi Xu
PublisherCambridge University Press
PublishedJun 05 2012
Book FormatPaperback
ISBN-139780521283236
Dimensions9.02 X 5.98 X 0.76 inches
Weight 1.11 pounds
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CategoriesHistory > Military - World War I
LanguageEnglish

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China's role in the First World War has been a curiously neglected topic. This 2005 book is a full-length study of China's involvement in the conflict from perspectives of international history, using largely unknown archival materials from China, France, Germany, UK, and USA. It explains why China wanted to join the war and what were its contributions to the war effort and the emerging world order in the postwar period. The book also demonstrates that China's participation in the First World War was not only a defining moment in modern Chinese and world history, but also the beginning of China's long journey toward internationalization. In this provocative book, Professor Xu adds a new dimension to our collective memory of the war, its tragedy and its significance, and restores the China war memory into its rightful place.

Author Bio

Professor Xu Guoqi was born in China and taught both in Asia and the USA before joining the University of Hong Kong's History Department. He writes and has published widely in both Chinese and English on various topics.

Professor Xu is a leading authority of international history of modern China. His peers in Society of Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS) recently honored him with the 2008 academic excellence award.

His book Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895-2008, published by Harvard University Press in spring 2008, was chosen by International Society of Olympic Historians as the best book of 2008. The same book also received rave reviews from Washington Post, [London] Times, Irish Times, New York Review of Books, South China Morning Post, Toronto Star, Journal of Asian Studies, among many others.

The Phoenix Television (Hong Kong) devoted two whole episodes of its book program to focus on this book, a rare treatment for any authors. His ideas and comments have been frequently sought by media such as Associated Press, Reuters, the New York Times, the South China Morning Post. His invited articles appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, and other places.

Professor Xu’s research has attracted worldwide attention and his research profiles and interviews appeared in both the United States and China. Most recently two long interviews of him regarding his research on Chinese laborers in France during the First World War and the May Fourth Movement were published respectively in 2009 from China in China Archives China Archives’ February issue (????) and the July issue of Xi Hu Zazhi (????), a popular literary journal.

Research Interests

International history of modern China
China and the wide world
First World War and Asia
Sports history and diplomacy
Issues related to Chinese national identity and internationalization
US-China relations
Sino-Foreign relations
Ideas of China

Source: The University of Hong Kong Department of History

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