Weishenme Zhongguo zai diyi ci shijie dazhan zhong juyou zhongyao zuoyong 为什么中国在第一次世界大战中具有重要作用 (Why China Played an Important Role in the First World War)

Segesser, Daniel Marc (2016). Weishenme Zhongguo zai diyi ci shijie dazhan zhong juyou zhongyao zuoyong 为什么中国在第一次世界大战中具有重要作用 (Why China Played an Important Role in the First World War). In: Yizhan yu Zhongguo: Yizhan bainian huiyi lunwen ji 一战与中国:一战百年会议论文集 (The First World War and China: Collection of Articles Originating from the Conference Held on the Occasion of the First World War’s Centenary) (pp. 81-106). Beijing: Dongfang chubanshe 东方出版社 (Eastern Press)

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Based on the analytic tool of "total war" (see the contribution "Controversy Total War" of the author to 1914-1918-Online) this article relates China's contribution in the First World War to that of other non-European countries such as Australia, South Africa or India. The aim is to articulate the global character of a conflict, which has rightly been named the first World War and in which China certainly played a much more important role than has been acknowledged by international historiography so far. Originally conceived as an answer to the question why not only China matters for a global history of the First World War, the title was changed during the translation process to stress the importance of China in the Great War to a larger extent.

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