This edited collection examines the effects of the Great War and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in East Asia. Contributors to this collection highlight how Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Mongolian groups and individuals actively sought to envision a global order in which the center of gravity lay in the Western Pacific, not the Northern Atlantic.

Contributions by: Evan Dawley, Frederick R. Dickinson, University of Pennsylvania, G. Clinton Godart, Tze-ki Hon, Noriko Kawamura, Junghoon Lee, Tatiana Linkhoeva, Tosh Minohara, Tadashi Nakatani, Chunling Peng, Torsten Weber