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Wade-Giles romanization:
Shan-tung
Date:
c. 1915 - 1919
Participants:
China
Japan
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Shandong question, at the Versailles Peace Conference ending World War I, in 1919, the problem of whether to transfer to Japan the special privileges formerly held by imperial Germany in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong. The final decision to validate the transfer produced a tremendous outcry in China and resulted in an outpouring of Chinese nationalist sentiment. In 1898, when the Western imperialist powers were rushing to extract concessions from the weakened Qing dynasty, Germany obtained the use of Jiaozhou Bay, on the southern coast of the Shandong Peninsula, and the right to construct a naval base at Qingdao ...(100 of 370 words)

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