Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Diplomatic Predicaments in the Early Years of the Republic of China Chapter 2 The Paris Peace Conference and the Washington Naval Conference Chapter 3 The Establishment of New Sino-Russia Relations and the Tough Stance of the Guangzhou Government on Foreign Powers Chapter 4 The Beiyang Government's Diplomatic Warfare to Revise Unequal Treaties and the Guangzhou Government's Struggle for the Abrogation of Unequal Treaties

About the Author

Wang Jianlang is the President of the Institute of Modern History, CASS, the General Secretary of the Association of Chinese Historians, and the Dean of the Department of Modern History of the Graduate School, CASS. He majors in the Modern history of China's foreign relations. He is also the author of The Return of Xinjiang to Chinese Central Control during the Last Days of the Sino-Japanese War: A Reappraisal Based on Chiang Kai-shek's Diary (2010) and other works.

Reviews

Wang Jianlang's book provides a vivid and well documented account of the ignominious origins and early development of the unequal treaty system in China, demonstrating why the Chinese government and its citizens considered the return of Hong Kong to the Mainland in 1997 to symbolize the "washing away of one hundred years of national shame." -- Richard J Smith George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities