China’s Forgotten World War I

Cunningham, Maura Elizabeth. China’s Forgotten World War I. LARB. The China Blog. 30 July 2014. En ligne : http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/chinablog/chinas-forgotten-world-war/ (Consulté le 8 août 2014).

World War I has always been primarily associated with Europe. That’s where the conflict began, where the major battles took place, and where the war had its most visible effect – the map of the continent was redrawn in its aftermath. But with the one hundredth anniversary of the war’s outbreak being commemorated this summer, we’re seeing more attention being paid to how non-European countries figured into “the war to end all wars.” Delhi-based writer Chandrahas Choudhury, for example, discusses India’s involvement in World War I in this Bloomberg View article, and The Guardian produced a documentary detailing the global nature of the conflict, though it’s still fairly Euro-centric.

China, too, became entangled in the fight in many different ways, and Penguin China is releasing a series of short “specials” that each focus on a specific aspect of China’s World War I history. These brief introductions (just about 100 pages), written by experienced journalists and historians, are available in Kindle editions and offer readers a quick overview of their subject matter.

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Voir aussi

• Les travailleurs chinois en France dans la Première Guerre mondiale. Chin’Electrodoc, 11 janvier 2014. En ligne: http://chinelectrodoc.hypotheses.org/5454

Monique Abud

Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine, EHESS, Paris, France

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