Books by Bruce Elleman

Using sources in Japanese, Chinese and American archives, this text reassesses Woodrow Wilson's agenda at the Paris Peace Conference. It argues Wilson did not "betray" China, but negotiated a compromise with the Japanese to ensure that China's sovereignty would be respected in Shandong Province.

A study of secret agreements signed by Moscow and the Peking Government in 1924 and confirmed by a Soviet-Japanese convention in 1925 which allowed the Bolsheviks to reclaim tsarist concessions in China including Outer Mongolia, the Chinese Eastern Railway, the Boxer Indemnity and the right of extraterritoriality.

The railways of Manchuria offer an intriguing vantage point for an international history of northeast Asia. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to explore this fascinating history.