{"id":1591,"date":"2015-12-21T04:04:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T04:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2015-12-20T20:22:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T20:22:22","slug":"the-editing-out-of-the-chinese-labour-corps-began-before-they-had-even-all-returned-home-at-the-paris-peace-conference-their-contribution-and-chinas-sovereignty-were-expediently-overlooked-the-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=1591","title":{"rendered":"The editing out of the Chinese Labour Corps began before they had even all left Europe &#8211; at the Paris Peace Conference. The consequences were profound."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Photograph of May 4th demonstrators,\u00a0Beijing, 1919<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he meaning of\u00a0the Versailles settlement [is reconfigured] by exploring its unintended consequences in\u00a0stimulating movements of national liberation in Egypt, India, Korea,\u00a0and China. Instead of telling us about the interplay of Great Power\u00a0politics, he shows how non-Europeans invented their own version of\u00a0Wilson in their search for a kind of self-determination that he, alongside\u00a0Lloyd George, Clemenceau, and Orlando, was unprepared to offer\u00a0to them. Who could have imagined that the decision these men took to\u00a0award rights to Shandong Province, formerly held by Germany, not to\u00a0China but to Japan would lead\u00a0to major rioting and the formation of the\u00a0Chinese Communist Party?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">The Legacy of the Great War<br \/>\nJay Winter (Editor) pages 7 and 8.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photograph of May 4th demonstrators,\u00a0Beijing, 1919 [T]he meaning of\u00a0the Versailles settlement [is reconfigured] by exploring its unintended consequences in\u00a0stimulating movements of national liberation in Egypt, India, Korea,\u00a0and China. Instead of telling us about the interplay of Great Power\u00a0politics, he shows how non-Europeans invented their own version of\u00a0Wilson in their search for a kind of self-determination &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"moree\"><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=1591\">Read more <i class=\"fa fa-arrow-circle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}