Manchuria : a concise history / Mark Gamsa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gamsa, Mark, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manchuria (China)--History.

Manchuria (China).

China--History.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) : illustrations, map

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : I.B. Tauris, 2020.

Summary:

"Mark Gamsa draws together the fragmented history of Manchuria - combining politics, culture and economy - in order to offer a new regional perspective on Chinese history. The book places particular emphasis on the history of the region, from the seventeenth century onwards, as a crucial site of Russia's expansion towards the Far East. Manchuria comprised a region in North East Asia, stretching across China, Mongolia and northeast Russia. As the home of the Manchu people, Manchuria has had a huge impact on the history of the modern world ? whether through the Manchu emperors, a dynasty which only collapsed after WWI, the interactions between Russia and China in the 20th Century and the invasion of Manchuria by Japan during the Second World War. Mark Gamsa seeks to re-orientate the history of the East around Manchuria ? a region with much more to offer for scholars of Russia, China and the East."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

CONTENTS: Introduction: Manchuria and a Regional Approach to Chinese History. Chapter One: The Ethnic Mosaic of the Northeast. Chapter Two: The ?Rise of the Manchus? and their Later Fortunes. Chapter Three: Russian expansion into Asia and the way to the treaty of Nerchinsk. Chapter Four: Qing Manchuria in the Long Eighteenth Century. Chapter Five: The Treaties of Aigun and Peking. Chapter Six: The Regional Repercussions of Imperialist Warfare: From the First Sino-Japanese War to the Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria. Chapter Seven: Russian Imperialism in China and the Chinese Eastern Railway. Chapter Eight: The Japanese Zone of Influence and the South Manchuria Railway. Chapter Nine: Chinese Migrant Society in the Northeast. Chapter Ten: Manchuria in the 1920s, Banditry and Warlord Rule. Chapter Eleven: The Manchukuo State: Resistance and Collaboration, 1932?45. Chapter Twelve: History and Geography: Heilongjiang. Chapter Thirteen: History and Geography: Jilin. Chapter Fourteen: History and Geography: Liaoning. Chapter Fifteen: The Mongol Component in Manchuria. Chapter Sixteen: Jehol

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Chengde: The Perspective of ?New Qing History?. Chapter Seventeen: Soviet Occupation, Civil War and Communist Victory, 1945?49. Chapter Eighteen: The Northeast through Literature Chapter Nineteen: The Northeast Under Mao Chapter Twenty: The Northeast After Mao.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 26, 2020).

ISBN:

9781788317917

1788317912

9781788317894

1788317890

OCLC:

1130899820