V.K. Wellington Koo and the Emergence of Modern China

" The first full biography of one of the essential figures behind the creation of modern China. Chinese diplomat V.K. Wellington Koo (1888-1985) was involved in virtually every foreign and domestic crisis in twentieth-century China. After earning a Ph.D. from Columbia University, Koo entered government service in 1912 intent on revising the unequal treaty system imposed on China in the nineteenth century, believing that breaking the shackles of imperialism would bring China into the "family of n

Author: Stephen G. Craft
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 04/30/2004
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.42h x 6.18w x 1.03d
ISBN: 9780813123141

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2004 pg. 715

About the Author

Stephen G. Craft is an assistant professor in the Humanities/Social Sciences Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida.

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