The East Asian Dimension of the First World War

Which role did East Asia play in the First World War? How did East Asian commentators see and interpret the total(izing) war in Europe and elsewhere? Which lessons did they draw from this experience for their own societies? How did economic networks shift? Which influence did the war have on East Asian visions of world order? This volume aims to introduce new scholarship, in many cases by hitherto untranslated East Asian authors. It is part of a larger movement in current historiography to emphasize the globality of the First World War, without losing sight of local repercussions and developments in East Asia.

Jan Schmidt ist Professor am Department for Japanese Studies an der Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Universität Leuven.Katja Schmidtpott ist Professorin für Geschichte Japans an der Universität Bochum.

ContentsAcknowledgements9The East Asian Dimension of the First World War: An Introduction11Jan Schmidt and Katja SchmidtpottI.The First World War and East Asian ThoughtThe First World War in East Asian Thought: As Seen from Japan39Yamamuro Shinichi (translated by David De Cooman)The First World War and Its Impact on Chinese Concepts of Modernity81Eugene W. ChiuII.The War and East Asia in the Mass MediaThe Japanese Press and Japans Entrance into the First World War101Morohashi Eiichi and Tamai Kiyoshi SeminarThe Yellow Monkey: Japans Image during the First World War as Seen on German Picture Postcards125Sepp LinhartThe First World War and Japanese Cinema: From Actuality to Propaganda 159Ogawa SawakoIII.Political and Economic EntanglementsThe Outbreak of the First World War and the Korean Independence Movement: Two Strategies Regarding the Twenty-One Demands on China185Ono YasuteruJapanese Loan Policy to China during the First World War: Shda Kazue and the Domestic Political Backgroundof the Nishihara Loans209Kubota Yji (translated by David De Cooman)The First World War and Chinese-American Economic Networks231Wu Lin-chunGerman-Japanese-US Mutual Perceptions and Diplomatic Initiatives over Mexico: New Perspectives on the Zimmermann Telegram247Gerhard KrebsIV.Warfare and Mobilisation in Europe and in the US as Studied in JapanLessons Learned: Japanese Bureaucrats and the First World War271Shimizu Yuichir (translated by Angelika Koch)The Japanese Armys Studies of Germany during the First World War and Its Preparations of a System of General National Mobilisation291Kud Akira (translated by Angelika Koch)Japanese Army Artillery and Engineering Officers Study Visits to Europe and the Japanese-German War313Suzuki Jun (translated by David De Cooman)V.Individual Experiences: POWs, Civilian Internees and Chinese WorkersThe Treatment of German Prisoners of War in Japan in the Global Context of the First World War333Mahon MurphyThe Prisoner-Of-War Camp at Aonogahara near Kbe: The Austro-Hungarian Empire in Miniature349tsuru AtsushiJapanese Civilians in Germany at the Outbreak of the First World War365Naraoka SchiThe British Recruitment Campaign for the Chinese Labour Corps during the First World War and the Shandong Workers Motives to Enroll385Zhang Yan (translated by Ernest Leung)Authors and Editors409