Picnics Prohibited: Diplomacy in a Chaotic China During the First World War Staff Recommended Helen Rappaport aims to present

Helen Rappaport aims to present a new and challenging take on the story

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this is a dramatic retelling of the tumultuous events of the first year of the war

Picnics Prohibited: Diplomacy in a Chaotic China During the First World War Staff Recommended Helen Rappaport aims to presentDescription by Frances Wood Paperback World War I came at an inopportune time for China. The country had joined a number of international organizations and ratified the Hague Conventions, but found its diplomatic efforts hampered by its young, inexperienced leadership, its factional regional divisions, and its foreign controlled treaty ports and concessions. Unfortunately for the Chinese, representatives of combatant nations navigated a diplomatic