The Internationalization of China: Foreign Relations At Home and Abroad in the Republican Era
@article{Kirby1997TheIO, title={The Internationalization of China: Foreign Relations At Home and Abroad in the Republican Era}, author={William C. Kirby}, journal={The China Quarterly}, year={1997}, volume={150}, pages={433 - 458} }
Nothing mattered more. Chinese history during the era of the first Republic was defined and shaped - and must ultimately be interpreted - according to the nature of its foreign relations. While few would dispute the contributions of what Paul Cohen has called a “more interior approach”1 to modern Chinese historical studies in the past two decades, there is no point searching for some uniquely “China-centred” historical narrative for this period. Everything important had an international…
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