Webinars & Presentations
Asian Topic Discussion Series: Asia and the 1919 Paris Peace Conference Ending WWI
Join Professor Uluğ Kuzuoğlu for a discussion on the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. While we talk about the repercussions of the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles in Europe, we rarely if ever consider how these events ending WWI impacted East Asia and shaped U.S.-East Asia relations and arguably still do today. The massive May 4, 1919 demonstrations in China and the “May Fourth Movement” that followed mark the true beginning of the 20th c. in China and elsewhere in East Asia; they attest to this as the turning point in modern East Asian history.