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In Manchuria

Author : Michael Meyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620402870

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In Manchuria by Michael Meyer Pdf

In the tradition of In Patagonia and Great Plains, Michael Meyer's In Manchuria is a scintillating combination of memoir, contemporary reporting, and historical research, presenting a unique profile of China's legendary northeast territory. For three years, Meyer rented a home in the rice-farming community of Wasteland, hometown to his wife's family. Their personal saga mirrors the tremendous change most of rural China is undergoing, in the form of a privately held rice company that has built new roads, introduced organic farming, and constructed high-rise apartments into which farmers can move in exchange for their land rights. Once a commune, Wasteland is now a company town, a phenomenon happening across China that Meyer documents for the first time; indeed, not since Pearl Buck wrote The Good Earth has anyone brought rural China to life as Meyer has here. Amplifying the story of family and Wasteland, Meyer takes us on a journey across Manchuria's past, a history that explains much about contemporary China--from the fall of the last emperor to Japanese occupation and Communist victory. Through vivid local characters, Meyer illuminates the remnants of the imperial Willow Palisade, Russian and Japanese colonial cities and railways, and the POW camp into which a young American sergeant parachuted to free survivors of the Bataan Death March. In Manchuria is a rich and original chronicle of contemporary China and its people.

Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia

Author : Akiko Yosano
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231123198

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Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia by Akiko Yosano Pdf

Yosano Akiko was a highly acclaimed Japanese poet. She was also a prominent feminist. In 1928 she was invited to travel around areas with a strong Japanese presence in China's northeast. This is her account of that journey.

Manchuria

Author : Mark Gamsa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788317900

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Manchuria by Mark Gamsa Pdf

Manchuria is a historical region, which roughly corresponds to Northeast China. The Manchu people, who established the last dynasty of Imperial China (the Qing, 1644–1911) originated there, and it has been the stage of turbulent events during the twentieth century: the Russo-Japanese war, Japanese occupation and establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo, Soviet invasion, and Chinese civil war. This innovative and accessible historical survey both introduces Manchuria to students and general readers and contributes to the emerging regional perspective in the study of China.

Intoxicating Manchuria

Author : Norman Smith
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774824316

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Intoxicating Manchuria by Norman Smith Pdf

Intoxicating Manchuria reveals how the powerful alcohol and opium industries in Northeast China were altered by warlord rule, Japanese occupation, political conflict, and a vigorous anti-intoxicant movement. Through the lens of the Chinese media’s depictions of alcohol and opium, Norman Smith examines how intoxicants and addiction were understood in this society, the role the Japanese occupation of Manchuria played in the portrayal of intoxicants, and the efforts made to reduce opium and alcohol consumption. This is the first English-language book-length study to focus on alcohol use in modern China and the first dealing with intoxicant restrictions in the region.

State, Peasant, and Merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644-1862

Author : Christopher Mills Isett
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0804752710

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State, Peasant, and Merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644-1862 by Christopher Mills Isett Pdf

This study seeks to lay bare the relationship between the sociopolitical structures that shaped peasant lives in Manchuria (northeast China) during the Qing dynasty and the development of that region’s economy. The book is written in three parts. It begins with an analysis of the ideological, political, and economic interests of the Qing ruling house in defending its homeland in the northeast against occupation by non-Manchus, and examines how these interests informed state policy and the reconfiguration of the region’s social landscape in the first decades of the dynasty. The book then addresses how this agrarian configuration unraveled under challenge from settler peasant communities and gives an account of the resulting property and labor regimes. The study ends with an account of how that social formation configured peasant economic behavior and in so doing established the limits of economic change and trade growth.

Japanese War Orphans in Manchuria

Author : M. Itoh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230106369

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Japanese War Orphans in Manchuria by M. Itoh Pdf

Japanese war orphans in Manchuria are the forgotten victims of the Asia-Pacific War and Sino-Japanese relations, and this is an integral part of the Japanese government's 'postwar settlement' issues concerning its war responsibility and compensation.

Russia in Manchuria

Author : Paul Dukes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000452969

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Russia in Manchuria by Paul Dukes Pdf

Manchuria, the name given to China’s North-eastern provinces by foreign powers, has been contested by China, Russia and Japan in particular over many centuries. This book surveys the history of Manchuria, focusing particularly on the Russian and Soviet perspective. It outlines early colonisation of the region and examines the importance of the Chinese Eastern Railway, a branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and the remarkable railway city of Harbin for consolidating the Russian presence in the region and for developing the region’s economy. It goes on to consider twentieth century developments, including the Japanese invasion and the puppet state of Manchukuo. Throughout, the book reflects on the nature of empire, especially Russian/Soviet imperialism and its similarities to and differences from other nations’ imperial ventures.

The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904–1932

Author : Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684173501

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The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904–1932 by Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka Pdf

"In this history of Japanese involvement in northeast China, the author argues that Japan’s military seizure of Manchuria in September 1931 was founded on three decades of infiltration of the area. This incremental empire-building and its effect on Japan are the focuses of this book. The principal agency in the piecemeal growth of Japanese colonization was the South Manchurian Railway Company, and by the mid-1920s Japan had a deeply entrenched presence in Manchuria and exercised a dominant economic and political influence over the area. Japanese colonial expansion in Manchuria also loomed large in Japanese politics, military policy, economic development, and foreign relations and deeply influenced many aspects of Japan’s interwar history."

War and Geopolitics in Interwar Manchuria

Author : Chi Man Kwong
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004340848

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War and Geopolitics in Interwar Manchuria by Chi Man Kwong Pdf

In War and Geopolitics in Interwar Manchuria Kwong Chi Man revisits the National Revolution of 1925-1928 by revealing the central importance of geopolitics in the civil wars in China during the interwar period.

The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945

Author : David Glantz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135774998

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The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945 by David Glantz Pdf

This critical examination of the final Soviet strategic offensive operation during World War II seeks to chip away at two generally inaccurate pictures many Westerners have of the war. Specifically, Westerners seem to think that only geography, climate, and sheer numbers negated German military skill and competency on the eastern front, a view that relegates Soviet military accomplishments to oblivion.

Memory Maps

Author : Mariko Asano Tamanoi
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824863593

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Memory Maps by Mariko Asano Tamanoi Pdf

Between 1932 and 1945, more than 320,000 Japanese emigrated to Manchuria in northeast China with the dream of becoming land-owning farmers. Following the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and Japan’s surrender in August 1945, their dream turned into a nightmare. Since the late 1980s, popular Japanese conceptions have overlooked the disastrous impact of colonization and resurrected the utopian justification for creating Manchukuo, as the puppet state was known. This re-remembering, Mariko Tamanoi argues, constitutes a source of friction between China and Japan today. Memory Maps tells the compelling story of both the promise of a utopia and the tragic aftermath of its failure. An anthropologist, Tamanoi approaches her investigation of Manchuria’s colonization and collapse as a complex "history of the present," which in postcolonial studies refers to the examination of popular memory of past colonial relations of power. To mitigate this complexity, she has created four "memory maps" that draw on the recollections of former Japanese settlers, their children who were left in China and later repatriated, and Chinese who lived under Japanese rule in Manchuria. The first map presents the oral histories of farmers who emigrated from Nagano, Japan, to Manchuria between 1932 and 1945 and returned home after the war. Interviewees were asked to remember the colonization of Manchuria during Japan’s age of empire. Hikiage-mono (autobiographies) make up the second map. These are written memories of repatriation from the Soviet invasion to some time between 1946 and 1949. The third memory map is entitled "Orphans’ Voices." It examines the oral and written memories of the children of Japanese settlers who were left behind at the war’s end but returned to Japan after relations between China and Japan were normalized in 1972. The memories of Chinese who lived the age of empire in Manchuria make up the fourth map. This map also includes the memories of Chinese couples who adopted the abandoned children of Japanese settlers as well as the children themselves, who renounced their Japanese nationality and chose to remain in China. In the final chapter, Tamanoi considers theoretical questions of "the state" and the relationship between place, voice, and nostalgia. She also attempts to integrate the four memory maps in the transnational space covering Japan and China. Both fastidious in dealing with theoretical questions and engagingly written, Memory Maps contributes not only to the empirical study of the Japanese empire and its effects on the daily lives of Japanese and Chinese, but also to postcolonial theory as it applies to the use of memory.

Stalin's War on Japan

Author : Charles Stephenson
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526785954

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Stalin's War on Japan by Charles Stephenson Pdf

This WWII military study examines the critical yet overlooked Soviet offensive on Japan’s puppet state and its influence on winning the Pacific War. Did Japan surrender in 1945 because the Americans dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Or because of the crushing defeat inflicted by the Soviet Union in Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in north-east China? In Stalin’s War on Japan, Charles Stephenson describes the Soviet offensive from the top-level decision-making and early planning stages to its decisive outcome on the ground. He also considers to what extent Japan’s capitulation is attributable to the atomic bomb or the stunningly successful entry of the Soviet Union into the conflict. Stephenson combines a vividly detailed narrative of the invasion itself with an absorbing account of the political and diplomatic process that gave rise to the offensive—with particular focus on the Yalta conference. There, Stalin allowed the Americans to persuade him to join the war in the east; a conflict he was determined on entering anyway. Stalin’s War on Japan sheds new light on the last act of the Second World War.

Empire and Environment in the Making of Manchuria

Author : Norman Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Geopolitics
ISBN : 8776942333

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Empire and Environment in the Making of Manchuria by Norman Smith Pdf

This unique and compelling analysis of Manchuria's environmental history demonstrates how the region's geography has shaped China's past. Since the 17th century, the call of the Manchurian wilderness, with its abundant wildlife, timber and mining deposits, has led several empires to do battle for its riches. Chinese, Japanese, Manchu, Russian and other imperial forces have defied unrelenting summers and unforgiving winters as they fought for sovereignty over this vast 'frontier'.0Going beyond the traditional focus on rivalries between Manchuria's colonizing forces, the volume examines the interplay of climate and competing imperial interests in the region's vibrant - and violent - cultural narrative. Families that settled this borderland reaped its riches while at the mercy of an unforgiving and hotly contested landscape.0The volume also explores the role of Manchuria in China's social and political evolution, offering an understanding of how the geopolitical future of this global economic power is rooted in its past.

Last Chance in Manchuria: The Diary of Chang Kia-ngau

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Bankers
ISBN : 0817987932

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Last Chance in Manchuria: The Diary of Chang Kia-ngau by Anonim Pdf

Translation based on the original, handwritten diary entitled: Tung-pei chieh shou chiao she jih chi. Includes index.

Abandoned Japanese in Postwar Manchuria

Author : Yeeshan Chan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136883903

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Abandoned Japanese in Postwar Manchuria by Yeeshan Chan Pdf

This book relates the experiences of the zanryu-hojin - the Japanese civilians, mostly women and children, who were abandoned in Manchuria after the end of the Second World War when Japan’s puppet state in Manchuria ended, and when most Japanese who has been based there returned to Japan. Many zanryu-hojin survived in Chinese peasant families, often as wives or adopted children; the Chinese government estimated that there were around 13,000 survivors in 1959, at the time when over 30,000 "missing" people were deleted from Japanese family registers as" war dead". Since 1972 the zanryu-hojin have been gradually repatriated to Japan, often along with several generations of their extended Chinese families, the group in Japan now numbering around 100,000 people. Besides outlining the zanryu-hojin’s experiences, the book explores the related issues of war memories and war guilt which resurfaced during the 1980s, the more recent court case brought by zanryu-hojin against the Japanese government in which they accuse the Japanese government of abandoning them, and the impact on the towns in northeast China from which the zanryu-hojin were repatriated and which now benefit hugely from overseas remittances from their former residents. Overall, the book deepens our understanding of Japanese society and its anti-war social movements, besides providing vivid and colourful sketches of individuals’ worldviews, motivations, behaviours, strategies and difficulties.