Manchuria

In part I, titled "Creating Conflict: The Chinese Eastern Railroad," the author discusses the troubled history of Imperial Russia's railway expansionism in Manchuria, which Bolshevik Russia initially condemned, but the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin later continued.

Chinese, Russians, and indigenous people established a hybrid frontier society, a world of its own quite distinct from eastern Siberia or southern Manchuria. Zatsepine is right to argue that "tensions between formal imperial expansionist initiatives and local developments on the ground shaped" the transformation of the Amur frontier (7).

The Great Flowing River: A Memoir of China, from Manchuria to Taiwan

1904: The Russo-Japanese War broke out, provoked by Russian penetration into Manchuria and Korea.

Soviet forces swept through Manchuria, capturing close to one million Japanese civilians and soldiers and shipping them to Siberia, where they were kept as slave labor long after Japan's surrender.

In Eastern Siberia, the railway was partly intended to further Russia's imperial ambitions in the Far East, and the final stretches were built through Manchuria on land leased from the Chinese.

In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China provides a blend of memoir, cultural inspection and historical analysis key to understanding modern China, and comes from the author of The Last Days of Old Beijing.

1904: The Russo-Japanese War broke out, |provoked by Russian penetration into Manchuria and Korea.

Tackling the intriguing question of why many Japanese leftist artists, writers, and intellectuals became enthusiastic supporters of Japanese imperialist expansion, Annika Culver's Glorifying the Empire: Japanese Avant-Garde Propaganda in Manchukuo examines the cultural production and professional trajectories of Japanese writers, photographers, and artists who produced modernist reflections of Manchukuo (i.e., Manchuria) during the period 1932-45.

Park Shin-jun in "In the Willow Shade" is a typical Zhong character: a Korean patriot and romantic, fluent in Japanese and an admirer of Tolstoy, Park ends up a student at a driving school in Manchuria. And in his works set closer to home, Zhong always retains an awareness of how the macrophenomena of politics and history can manifest themselves within the personal lives of even the most isolated villagers.

After securing a right of way from China's moribund Qing Dynasty, Russia extended the Trans-Siberian Railway south from Harbin through Manchuria to Port Arthur.

42-year-old Siddhartha, a kung Fu coach and national referee, is also a member of the All Jorhat Manchuria Kung Fu Academy affiliated to the Manchuria Kung Fu International School of Chinese Self Defence Martial Arts headquartered in Hong Kong.

Thirty years have passed since the literary work written in Manchuria in the 1940's was called the dark age of literature or pro-Japanese literature.

Intoxicating Manchuria; alcohol, opium, and culture in China's northeast.