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The archaeology of northeast China
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ISBN: 1134816596 1280109505 0203429877 0203294556 9780203429877 9780415117555 0415117550 9780203294550 9786610109500 6610109508 0415117550 9781134816590 9781280109508 9781134816545 9781134816583 9780415513470 1134816588 Year: 1995 Publisher: London New York :Routledge

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Up-to-date study of the archaeology and prehistory of Manchuria, focusing on its unique contribution to the development of `Chinese' culture. Written by Chinese archaeologists - a firsthand account that is highly accessible. Fully illustrated.


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Travels on horseback in Mantchu Tartary : being a summer's ride beyond the Great Wall of China
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ISBN: 0511709536 1108014267 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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First published in 1863, this is the enchanting account of the travels of George Fleming in the far north of China. Fleming began his epic journey in Tien-tsin, where he was stationed as an army doctor at a British military garrison; there he was granted special permission to travel almost 700 miles as far as Moukden and to Manchu Tartary, the birth place of the Manchu dynasty. Fleming's route took him through many regions that had been inaccessible to western travellers until the Treaty of Tien-tsin (1858-1859). His vivid account describes the people and customs he met; the landscape; the climate; the language and dialects; the agricultural practices of the various regions; and the struggles and hardships he faced during his journey. Fleming's work is a monument of Victorian travel literature and an important source in understanding Victorian perceptions of China and of Chinese culture.


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Beasts head for home
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ISBN: 0231177046 9780231544665 0231544669 9780231177047 9780231177047 9780231177054 0231177054 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York

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"Set in Manchuria in the aftermath of the Asian Pacific War. The central character is Kuki Kyūzō, whose settler parents relocated from Japan to the Manchurian puppet-state as the Japanese empire expanded. Kyūzō's father, a factory technician, dies shortly after he is born. In the course of Japan's defeat and the Soviet Union's occupation of Manchuria, Kyūzō's mother is seriously wounded, forcing him to remain behind with her rather than evacuate with the other Japanese citizens. Her subsequent death leaves Kyūzō alone in the abandoned Japanese settlement, and he is employed as a houseboy by Alexandrov, an officer in the Soviet army. Approximately two years after the end of hostilities, Kyūzō decides to return to Japan. Providing money, a train ticket, and official travel documents, Alexandrov bids Kyūzō farewell. On the train Kyūzō meets Kō, who appears to be a fellow Japanese, much to Kyūzō's relief. The train is attacked, but Kyūzō and Kō manage to escape, fleeing by foot across the harsh Manchurian plains. Kyūzō gradually comes to realize that Kō is in possession of stolen heroin and is being pursued by the Chinese Communists, who are battling the Nationalist forces for control of the mainland. Finally arriving at a city, Kyūzō is betrayed by Kō, who beats him and steals his identity papers and travel documents. Utterly destitute, Kyūzō makes his way to a Japanese repatriation center. The difficulty is that Kyūzō lacks any documents to prove that he is Japanese. Exposure to the elements has left him deeply sunburned, which further casts doubt on his Japanese identity. He wanders the city and meets another Japanese named Okura, who takes an unusual interest in Kyūzō's relationship with Kō"--


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Inheritance of loss
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ISBN: 022641227X 9780226412276 9780226411941 022641194X 9780226412139 022641213X Year: 2016 Publisher: Chicago

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How do contemporary generations come to terms with losses inflicted by imperialism, colonialism, and war that took place decades ago? How do descendants of perpetrators and victims establish new relations in today's globalized economy? With Inheritance of Loss, Yukiko Koga approaches these questions through the unique lens of inheritance, focusing on Northeast China, the former site of the Japanese puppet state Manchukuo, where municipal governments now court Japanese as investors and tourists. As China transitions to a market-oriented society, this region is restoring long-neglected colonial-era structures to boost tourism and inviting former colonial industries to create special economic zones, all while inadvertently unearthing chemical weapons abandoned by the Imperial Japanese Army at the end of World War II. Inheritance of Loss chronicles these sites of colonial inheritance--tourist destinations, corporate zones, and mustard gas exposure sites--to illustrate attempts by ordinary Chinese and Japanese to reckon with their shared yet contested pasts. In her explorations of everyday life, Koga directs us to see how the violence and injustice that occurred after the demise of the Japanese Empire compound the losses that later generations must account for, and inevitably inherit.

Leadership strategies, economic activity, and interregional interaction : social complexity in northeast China
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ISBN: 1280207175 9786610207176 0306471647 0306460904 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York, New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,

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An attempt to render Chinese archaeology more accessible to Western readers through a detailed case study of approximately 16,000 years of cultural development in northeastern China. The author addresses prehistoric sociopolitical processes in the Dongbei region through an analysis of both his and other researchers' field data and demonstrates the potential contribution of conducting archaeological research into anthropology-related issues in China.


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Women of the conquest dynasties : gender and identity in Liao and Jin China.
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ISBN: 9780824834043 Year: 2011 Publisher: Honolulu University of Hawaii press


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The Manchurian frontier in Ch'ing history
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ISBN: 0674547756 9780674547759 Year: 1970 Volume: 43 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard university press


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Empire and environment in the making of Manchuria
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ISBN: 9780774832908 0774832908 9780774832892 Year: 2017 Publisher: Vancouver UBC Press

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"This unique and compelling analysis of Manchuria's environmental history demonstrates how the region's geography shaped China's past. Since the seventeenth century, the call of the Manchurian wilderness, with its abundant wildlife, timber, and mining deposits, has led some of the greatest empires in the world 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." Until now, historians have focused on rivalries between Manchuria's colonizing forces. Empire and Environment in the Making of Manchuria 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. As China's strength as a world leader continues to grow, this volume invites further exploration of the indelible links between empire and environment. The role of Manchuria in China's social and political evolution provides context for understanding how the geopolitical future of this global economic powerhouse is rooted in its past."--


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Empire and the meaning of religion in Northeast Asia : Manchuria 1900-1945
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ISBN: 1316731138 1316744647 1316617475 1316711021 1316746577 1316748502 1316754294 1107166403 1316752364 1316733068 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Manchuria entered the twentieth century as a neglected backwater of the dying Qing dynasty, and within a few short years became the focus of intense international rivalry to control its resources and shape its people. This book examines the place of religion in the development of Manchuria from the late nineteenth century to the collapse of the Japanese Empire in 1945. Religion was at the forefront in this period of intense competition, not just between armies but also among different models of legal, commercial, social and spiritual development, each of which imagining a very specific role for religion in the new society. Debates over religion in Manchuria extended far beyond the region, and shaped the personality of religion that we see today. This book is an ambitious contribution to the field of Asian history and to the understanding of the global meaning and practice of the role of religion.


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War and geopolitics in interwar Manchuria : Zhang Zuolin and the Fengtian clique during the Northern Expedition
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ISBN: 9789004340848 900434084X 9004339124 9789004339125 Year: 2017 Publisher: Leiden, [Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill Nijhoff,

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In War and Geopolitics in Interwar Manchuria Kwong Chi Man revisits the civil wars in China (1925-1928) from the perspective of the often-overlooked 'warlords,' who fought against the joint forces of the Nationalist and Communist parties. In particular, this work focuses on Zhang Zuolin, the leader of the 'Fengian Clique' who was sometimes seen as the representative of the Japanese interest in Manchuria. Using primary and secondary sources from China, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, this work tries to revisit the wars during the period from international, political, military, and economic-financial perspectives. It sheds new light on Zhang Zuolin's decision to fight against the Nationalists and the Communists and offers an alternative explanation to the Nationalists (temporary) victory by revealing the central importance of geopolitics in the civil wars in China during the interwar period.

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