...Mariko Asano Tamanoi 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Mariko Asano Tamanoi A Road to ‘‘A Redeemed Mankind The Politics of Memory among the Former Japanese Peasant Settlers in Manchuria Walter Benjamin once wrote, ‘‘Nothing that has...

...Hyun Ok Park 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Hyun Ok Park Korean Manchuria: The Racial Politics of Territorial Osmosis Is ‘‘a grammar of difference’’ a most basic tension of empire? According to Ann Stoler and Fred...

...Andre Schmid 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Andre Schmid Looking North toward Manchuria Writing in prominent Korean historian Sin Ch’aeho decried that his countrymen were ‘‘sitting on the sidelines happily...

... been told. —Kinnosuke Adachi, Manchuria: A Survey A s the twentieth century began, Northeast Asia joined the mainstream of world history. As a consequence this region’s center of gravity...

... focuses on the layered cultures of the city of 1 Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province in Northeast China, and the area formerly known as Manchuria, in the first half of the twentieth...

... (Harbin residents), the usage is misleading; Chinese and other residents of Harbin are also kharbintsy. Manchuria is used in reference to Northeast China simply to convey the Russian perceptions of the time...

... that this force, if it would not surrender, could constitute the balance of power in that region. In China, excluding Manchuria, only Chiang Kai-shek s Nationalist Government could disarm and repatriate the defeated Japanese. But his forces had concentrated in the southwest in Szechuan. Communist units around...

... several months later on May after alongillness. The circumstances of his death and various firsthand accounts invite us to examine the Manchukuo period and reflect on the situation of the Russian émigrés during this period in Manchuria. In fact, their status as White Rus- sian émigrés, which...

... in Manchuria caused her to pursue the same policy with respect to the warlords of North China, whose Japanese staff officers doubled as political lobbyists and diplomatic repre­ sentatives. The deference these warlords accorded their Japanese advisers and their eagerness for Japanese assistance persuaded Japan...

..., formerly called Manchuria, Russia’s president Boris Yeltsin placed flowers at the memorial for fallen Soviet soldiers in the center of the city. The celebration honored men who had given their lives in a war...

... Lahusen, Thomas, Introduction [Harbin and Manchuria] Lahusen, Thomas, Remembering China, Imagining Israel: The Memory of Difference Lentricchia, Frank, Aristotle and/or DeLillo McAuliffe, Jody...

... of the mountains and valleys of 35 Manchuria, which I shall abbreviate as primeval forests (yuanshi lin). The entire novel takes place in these three spaces, which are viewed topographi- cally at both the beginnings and endings of their particular...

... Empire of Manchuria, needed to justify its existence The South Atlantic Quarterly Winter Copyright © by Duke University Press. 254 Thomas Lahusen from the very beginning. As Mariko Tamanoi shows in her article ‘‘Knowl...

... to withstand the assimilation process and persecutions in countries of resi- dence. In Manchuria this socioethnic activity of the Jews found favorable soil. Compared with the conditions that existed within the borders of the Russian Empire, where Jews represented one of the most oppressed parts...

... of the Peoples of the Far East in Vladivostok (Russian Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Branch), works on the political and so- cial history of the Russian Far East. Her publications include a collection of documents on the Russian emigration to Manchuria between and professor of history...

...Paul Hibbert Clyde Copyright © 1939 by Duke University Press 1939 THE FAR EASTERN CONFLICT: SOME HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDS PAUL HIBBERT CLYDE THE SO-CALLED Far Eastern question is not new. It does not date, as is so frequently inferred in these days, from Japan s invasion of Manchuria in 1931...

... railway from Russia in fair fight. She has improved and ex­ panded her holdings and established large commercial interests in Manchuria. At the beginning of the present war the world at large rather hoped that Japan would take over Manchuria, so that country could develop, instead of being exploited...

... and Russian—to contribute. Hanson wrote that the cost of the temple, which would be the largest temple of Con- fucius in all of Manchuria, was estimated at Mexican silver dollars, and that both Chinese and foreigners in Harbin donated funds. As for the fund-raising tactics, he observed, ‘‘Russian firms...

... Japan destroyed what was left of the open door in Manchuria. Beginning in 1937 Japan made all of conquered China a vast sphere of Japanese influence. Long before 1937 the principle of China s territorial and administrative integrity had be­ come a mere pretense. By 1939 there was not a single American...

... came wasteland a wasteland sparsely populated by European Russians. A lone watchtower stood between the two countries on one ofthe hills of Manchuria (to borrow the famous song title from the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5). What was it defending, the West from the East or the other way around...