Betrayed Ally: China in the Great War - Christopher Arnander, Frances Wood - Google Books

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The Great War helped China emerge from humiliation and obscurity and take its first tentative steps as a full member of the global community. In 1912 the Qing Dynasty had ended. President Yuan Shikai, who seized power in 1914, offered the British 50,000…