Betrayal in Paris – A Few Images I wasn’t able to squeeze in
Posted: July 15th, 2014 | No Comments »My Penguin China e-book short on China at the Treaty of Versailles (part of the ongoing Penguin China World War One series), Betrayal in Paris, contains a number of pictures of the leading members of the Chinese delegation in Paris and some of the top Japanese negotiators…but there were several pictures of various other characters involved in the story that there simply wasn’t space to use. So here they are….
CC Wu (Wu Chaoshu), the son of Wu Ting-fang (a supporter of the Canton government and prominent Chinese diplomat), was brought into the Chinese nogotiating team at a later stage, though he also made little impact in Paris in 1919.Â
SteÌphen Pichon, who had been French ambassador to China during the Boxer Rebellion, met several times with the Chinese delegation in Paris
Chengting ‘Thomas’ (CT) Wang (Wang Zhengting), in his mid-thirties, found himself the titular Chinese delegation leader for a time after Lou Tseng Tsiang’s hasty retreat.He was an ardent loyalist to the Southern Government.
Viscount Chinda Sutemi, then Tokyo’s ambassador in London, a key member of the Japanese negotiating team in Paris in 1919
US Secretary of State Robert Lansing offered little in the way of actualpromises and voiced his concerns to the Chinese delegation that the European powers would back Japan
British foreign secretary Arthur Balfour, who led the so-called ‘committee of experts’ that finally decided China’s fate in Paris
The Peranakanese sugar-cane heiress, Chinese-Indonesian Oei Hui-lan (Huang Huilan), a noted beauty and style-setter, who was courted and eventually married Wellington Koo in Paris in 1919
The fiery Trinidadian-Chinese Eugene Chen (Chen Youren), a well-connected and influential adviser to the southern faction of the delegation in Paris, who was to become China’s foreign minister in the 1920s, proposed a resolution condemning the big three powers, accusing Wilson particularly of betrayal.
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