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Frances Wood

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Frances Wood recently retired as Curator of Chinese Collections at the British Library. She has written numerous books on China including Did Marco Polo go to China?, No Dogs and Not Many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China and The Diamond Sutra: The Story of the World's Earliest Dated Printed Book. She continues to research and write in London.

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Frances Wood

At the time of the First World War, the Chinese republic was in its infancy. It had joined a number of international organizations and ratified the Hague Conventions, but found its diplomatic efforts hampered by its young, inexperienced leadership, its factional and . . .

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