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The Fateful Deception Behind a Century-Long Grudge Match

BRENT CRANE
How China’s bitter disappointment at the Paris Peace Conference sparked the outrage that would lead to the country’s long revolution—and the grudges that persist today.

Published on June 22, 2014

Betrayal in Paris: How the Treaty of Versailles Led to China’s Long Revolution

by Paul French

e-Penguin, 2014, 81 pp., $3.38

On November 18th, 1918 Peking was given over to riotous celebration. Continue reading