Investor Presentaiton
Anti-China Sentiment in
the United States
Many Chinese immigrants came to the
western part of the US in the second half
of the 19th century. They were mostly
men, working in the
d fields of
gold f
California, but by the last decades of the
century, they faced expulsion from cities
such as Seattle and Denver. There were
over 200 purges in California. In early
1917, xenophobia was at a new high, and a
bill restricting immigration was passed
over President Wilson's veto.
COME OUT AND RATIFY:
Come Everybody!
NO MORE CHINESE
By Order of
Democratic County Central Committe
Poster announcing the democratic passage of
the Chinese Exclusion Act
Pressure from Japan and
Great Powers
The liberal-leaning Japanese negotiators
at Versailles—Baron Makino Nobuaki
promised Arthur Balfour, the British
foreign secretary, that the Japanese would
not protest the racial equality decision at
the plenary session if their claims to
Shandong were approved. While it is
possible that the Japanese were bluffing,
the Council of Four approved Japanese
concessions in Shandong on April 30,
1919.
Shandong (Shantung)
Located in the northeastern part of China
1898 Germany controlled Shandong
1915 China agreed to give Shandong to Japan
1919 Shandong was given to Japan
1922 Shandong returned to China
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Wilson's Goal in Paris &
His Failed Promise
Wilson's goal in Paris wax to pass the
League of Nations. Although Wilson
wanted to support Wellington Koo to
reclaim Shandong, Japan, and many other
great powers disagreed with Wilson. As a
result, Shandong was given to Japan. This
led to the May Fourth movement in
China National self-determination and
territorial integrity, those Wilsonian
principles, seemed unrealistic
&
Woodrow Wilson
The Chinese Communist Party
Established in 1920
After Shandong was given to Japan, Chinese
nationalists were angry. Some concluded that
democracy itself was flawed and wrong for China and
that the West would never be China's friend. It was a
time of radical change and intellectual ferment.
Chinese were impressed that the new communist
regime in Russia repudiated old unequal tricties with
China. Many Chinese radicals moved towards
Marxism.
The
Shandong
Problem
By Tian Liao
我們像大勝利的講堂毛澤東和斯大林
China Felt Betrayed
Li Durban, ne of the founders of the Chinese Communist
Party, said. "This time the war in Europe is over. Have we ever
dreamed that humanity and peace won the victory 'just
fake signbond of a robber government. Let's look at what was
decided at the Paris Conference, which action had the slightest
ace of humanny, potice, prace, and light? No decima
mode without robber states sacrificing the freedom and rights
of weak mation"
Washington Naval
Conference
Wellington Koo, One of the Republic of China's
representatives at the Paris Peace Conference of y
TREATY
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Koo refused to sign the
Treaty of Versailles.
Japan and China signed a bilateral
agreement, the Shantung (Shandong)
Treaty, which returned control of the
province and its railroad to China.
Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, British
Prime Minister David Lloyd George,
French Premier Georges Clemenceau, and
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson meeting
at Wilson's Paris home prior to the signing
of the Versailles TreatyView entire presentation