Shandong Question at Versailles

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The Shandong Question at Versailles was a post–World War I diplomatic dispute at the Paris Peace Conference over whether Germany’s former concessions in China’s Shandong province would be returned to China or transferred to Japan.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf diplomatic dispute
issue at the Paris Peace Conference
post–World War I political issue
affected China’s relationship with the Western powers
Japan’s international standing after World War I
concernsCountry China
Germany
Japan
concernsFormerConcessionsIn Qingdao
concernsFormerConcessionsOf German Empire
concernsTerritory Shandong
surface form: Shandong Province
context negotiations over German colonial possessions
date 1919
followedBy eventual return of Shandong to Chinese control in the 1920s
hasLanguageOfDiplomacy Chinese
English
French
Japanese
hasLocation Paris Peace Conference
Versailles
historicalRegionInvolved Shandong Peninsula
influenced China’s decision not to sign the Treaty of Versailles
rise of Chinese nationalism
influencedEvent May Fourth Movement
involvesIssue colonial concessions in China
sovereignty over Shandong
transfer of German concessions in Shandong
involvesParty British delegation at the Paris Peace Conference
Shandong Question at Versailles self-linksurface differs
surface form: Chinese delegation at the Paris Peace Conference

French delegation at the Paris Peace Conference
German delegation at the Paris Peace Conference
Japanese delegation at the Paris Peace Conference
Paris Peace Conference
surface form: United States delegation at the Paris Peace Conference
opposedBy Chinese intellectuals
Chinese public opinion
outcome German rights in Shandong transferred to Japan
partOf issues settled at the Paris Peace Conference
precededBy German leasehold in Jiaozhou Bay
relatedTo Chinese foreign policy in the early Republic era
Japan–China relations
surface form: Sino–Japanese relations

imperialism in East Asia
relatedToEvent World War I
relatedToPrinciple self-determination
relatedToTreaty Treaty of Versailles
resultedIn boycott of Japanese goods in China
widespread protests in China
timePeriod post–World War I

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this entity surface form: Chinese delegation at the Paris Peace Conference