Chinese Revolution · TURNING POINT ·
Siege of Tsingtao (1914)
On the Chinese Revolution map as “Tsingtao taken”
7 Nov 1914 — Japan, entering the World War on the Allied side, seizes Germany’s Shandong colony — and means to keep it. When Versailles confirms the transfer in 1919, it is this port, not any battlefield, that brings Chinese students into the streets.
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- Yuan Shikai and the early republic (chapter 2 of Chinese Revolution)
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- China in Revolution, 1911–1949
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