HST 504 Lecture Notes - Communist Party Of China, Imperial Way Faction, May Fourth Movement
21 Sep 2012
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Sino-japanese war (known also as the second sino-japanese war) China reawakened: the growth of chinese nationalism in the 1920s. China did not emerge as a stronger state from the first world war. German colonies, for instance, were not returned to china but rather became spoils of war. Unequal treaties and the open door policy made sure that foreigners would retain a powerful voice in china"s domestic affairs. Worse yet, china"s main east asian rival had grown in power considerably. The empire of the rising sun, as japan was nicknamed, had made territorial, political and economic claims on beijing already before 1914. During the great war, tokyo"s twenty-one demands revealed the extent of japanese aspirations on the mainland. After the war, the league of nations was to protect china from outside aggression, at least until its domestic political situation could be stabilized enough for the chinese to take the reins of power.
