Jan Schmidt & Katja Schmidtpott 
The East Asian Dimension of the First World War 
Global Entanglements and Japan, China and Korea, 1914-1919.

Welche Rolle spielte Ostasien im Ersten Weltkrieg? Wie sahen und bewerteten ostasiatische Beobachter den ‘totalen Krieg’ in Europa, welche Lehren zogen sie daraus für ihre Gesellschaften? Wie verschoben sich wirtschaftliche Netzwerke durch den Krieg? Welchen Einfluss hatte er auf Ordnungsvorstellungen und Weltbilder in Ostasien? Das Ziel der neueren Geschichtsschreibung, die Globalität des Ersten Weltkriegs stärker zu erfassen, ohne seine lokalen Rückwirkungen aus dem Blick zu verlieren, verfolgt dieser Band gut 100 Jahre nach dem Beginn des Krieges am Beispiel Chinas, Japans und Koreas.

Table of Content

Contents
Acknowledgements9
The East Asian Dimension of the First World War: An Introduction11
Jan Schmidt and Katja Schmidtpott
I.The First World War and East Asian Thought
The First World War in East Asian Thought: As Seen from Japan39
Yamamuro Shin’ichi (translated by David De Cooman)
The First World War and Its Impact on Chinese Concepts of Modernity81
Eugene W. Chiu
II.The War and East Asia in the Mass Media
The Japanese Press and Japan’s Entrance into the First World War101
Morohashi Eiichi and Tamai Kiyoshi Seminar
The ‘Yellow Monkey’: Japan’s Image during the First World War as Seen on German Picture Postcards125
Sepp Linhart
The First World War and Japanese Cinema: From Actuality to Propaganda 159
Ogawa Sawako
III.Political and Economic Entanglements
The Outbreak of the First World War and the Korean Independence Movement: Two Strategies Regarding the Twenty-One Demands on China185
Ono Yasuteru
Japanese Loan Policy to China during the First World War: Shōda Kazue and the Domestic Political Background
of the Nishihara Loans209
Kubota Yūji (translated by David De Cooman)
The First World War and Chinese-American Economic Networks 231
Wu Lin-chun
German-Japanese-US Mutual Perceptions and Diplomatic Initiatives over Mexico: New Perspectives on the Zimmermann Telegram247
Gerhard Krebs
IV.Warfare and Mobilisation in Europe and in the US as Studied in Japan
Lessons Learned: Japanese Bureaucrats and the First World War271
Shimizu Yuichirō (translated by Angelika Koch)
The Japanese Army’s Studies of Germany during the First World War and Its Preparations of a System of General National Mobilisation291
Kudō Akira (translated by Angelika Koch)
Japanese Army Artillery and Engineering Officers’ Study Visits to Europe and the ‘Japanese-German War’313
Suzuki Jun (translated by David De Cooman)
V.Individual Experiences: POWs, Civilian Internees and Chinese Workers
The Treatment of German Prisoners of War in Japan in the Global Context of the First World War333
Mahon Murphy
The Prisoner-Of-War Camp at Aonogahara near Kōbe: The Austro-Hungarian Empire in Miniature349
Ōtsuru Atsushi
Japanese Civilians in Germany at the Outbreak of the First World War365
Naraoka Sōchi
The British Recruitment Campaign for the Chinese Labour Corps during the First World War and the Shandong Workers’ Motives to Enroll385
Zhang Yan (translated by Ernest Leung)
Authors and Editors409

About the author

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