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

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 Shinichi (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 Japans Entrance into the First World War101
Morohashi Eiichi and Tamai Kiyoshi Seminar
The Yellow Monkey: Japans 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: Shda Kazue and the Domestic Political Background
of the Nishihara Loans209
Kubota Yji (translated by David De Cooman)
The First World War and Chinese-American Economic Networks231
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 Yuichir (translated by Angelika Koch)
The Japanese Armys Studies of Germany during the First World War and Its Preparations of a System of General National Mobilisation291
Kud Akira (translated by Angelika Koch)
Japanese Army Artillery and Engineering Officers Study Visits to Europe and the Japanese-German War313
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 Kbe: The Austro-Hungarian Empire in Miniature349
tsuru Atsushi
Japanese Civilians in Germany at the Outbreak of the First World War365
Naraoka Schi
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

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