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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Manchuria"”.
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“Suppressing bandits”: Social policing of warlord government in Manchuria, 1918-1928
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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From Empire to Nation: The Politics of Language in Manchuria (1890-1911)
… allows us to understand the integration of Manchuria into modern China, East Asia, and the world from a different perspective.
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Dreams of Empire: The Japanese Agricultural Colonization of Manchuria (1931--1945) in History and Memory
… Japanese agrarian nationalism, newly focused on Manchuria as a ""New Paradise"" (Shintenchi) for the nation's indigent farming community. More importantly, this study focuses on the main agents of Japan's renewed imperial drive: the agricultural colonists themselves. The ""Great Men"" of Japanese …
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From Yokohama to Manchuria: a photography-based investigation of nostalgia in the construction of Japanese landscape
… photography produced in Japanese-occupied Manchuria from the 30s and 40s. Nostalgia is then investigated in contemporary sites of leisure and consumerism, where it is considered as elemental in attempts to redefine the identity of Japan as a post-industrial society. In exploring the use of …
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Arirang People: A Study of Koreans in Transnational Diasporas of the Russian Far East and Manchuria, 1895-1920
… diasporas in the Russian Far East and Manchuria at the end of the Yi Dynasty of Korea at the turn of the twentieth century, resulting in their involvement in the Japanese and the Russian military forces. From a geopolitical and multicultural perspective, this is a study of transnational …
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China’s Last Warlord: Gao Gang and The Northeast People’s Government (1948-1954)
This dissertation examines how Manchuria, a vast and strategic border region existing outside the political realm of China proper since the end of the Qing Dynasty, was quickly absorbed and transformed by the Chinese Communists. This process was spearheaded by Gao Gang, the leader of the Northeast …
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Building Coercive Capacity: Three Essays
… focuses on Japanese-led state-building in Manchuria. I examine the strategies that states utilize in expanding state capacity through exploiting ethnic conflicts and cleavages between its subjects, finding that conflict can induce cooperation with state-building efforts from some groups but …
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Commerce and Culture: The Manchukuo Film Industry from 1937 to 1945
This thesis centers on the Manchuria film industry from 1930s to 1940s, which was sponsored by the Kwangtung Army and Japanese businessmen. As a state-sponsored company, the development of the Manchukuo Film Prduction and Exhibition Company (Man'ei) shaped the history of Manchukuo film industry. In …
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Anamnesis, myth, and the political in selected works of Murakami Haruki
… candid dialogue concerning Japanese actions in Manchuria, the misplaced trust of Japanese citizens, and a distorted idealism of broad cross sections of the populace.
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General Ishii Shiro: His Legacy is That of Genius and Madman
… these as war crimes. When the Japanese left Manchuria, they left the world’s largest chemical waste dump behind, and even to this day the government refuses to admit the actions of Unit 731. The information on biological warfare that the Japanese discovered during the experimentation in China …
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Šintoistinės maldyklos už Japonijos įtakos ribų imperijos ekspansionizmo laikotarpiu /
… Empire of Japan include Taiwan, Korea, Sakhalin, Manchuria, the Republic of China, and the South Sea Islands. The regions outside the Empire are Brazil and Hawaii. The third chapter compares the practices, modes of emergence, and integration of Shinto shrines into local cultures both within and …
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Japan's foreign policy, 1931-1941 : as influenced by the militarists and the Zaibatsu
… That decade began with the incident at Mukden, Manchuria, September 18, 1931, and ended with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Various aspects of the situation will be examined in order to illustrate as fully as possible the magnitude of the role of the militarists and the Zaibatsu. …
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Fall from grace: United States images of Japan, 1894--1921
… mounting an economic challenge to Japan in Manchuria, and Woodrow Wilson opposing Japanese domination of China on moral grounds. This process was intimately involved with the change in American perceptions of Japan. After Wilson proved unable to reconcile his idealism with the demands of …
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Host: Fleas and the History of Pikas in North America
… hyperborea</em> in eastern Siberia and Manchuria. The presence of this species on both sides of the Bering Strait is suggestive of late Pleistocene contact between <em>O. collaris</em> and <em>O. hyperborea</em>, supporting previous findings from pika pinworms.</p>
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Market, Medicine, and Empire: Hoshi Pharmaceuticals in the Interwar Years
… a front for the smuggling of narcotics through Manchuria and China. Although the company was a key supplier of medicines to Japan's military during World War Two, it could not financially recover from the fallout of the opium scandal. In 1952, the industrialist Otani Yonetaro seized control of …
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ID Troubles: The National Identification Systems in Japan and the (mis) Construction of the Subject
… twentieth century: the Chinese in the colony of “Manchuria”, in northeast China, and the Koreans on the Japanese mainland. Although the empire collapsed after World War II, the practice was officially legislated to target Koreans and Chinese who remained in post-war democratic Japan. Juki-net is …
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