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Since the seventeenth century, Chinese, Japanese, Manchu, Russian, and other imperial forces have defied Manchuria's unrelenting summers and unforgiving winters to fight for sovereignty over the natural resources of Northeast Asia. Until now, historians have focused on rivalries between the region's imperial invaders. Empire and Environment in the Making of Manchuria examines the interplay of climate and competing economic and political interests in the region's vibrant – and violent – cultural narrative. In this unique and compelling analysis of Manchuria's environmental history, contributors demonstrate how geography shaped the region's past. 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 exploration of the indelible links between empire and environment – and shows how the geopolitical future of this global economic powerhouse is rooted in its past.

Table of Contents:
Introduction / Norman Smith 1 Manchuria: History and Environment / Diana Lary 2 Rival Empires on the Hunt for Sable and Tribal in Seventeenth-Century Manchuria / David A. Bello 3 Inclement Weather and Human Error: Impediments to the Tribute System in Qing Manchuria / Loretta E. Kim 4 Producing Full-Fat Controversy: The Politicization of Dairy Production in Post-Colonial North Manchuria, 1924–30 / Blaine Chiasson 5 "Hibernate No More!": Winter, Health, and the Great Outdoors / Norman Smith 6 Constructing a Rural Utopia: Propaganda Images of Japanese Settlers in Northern Manchuria, 1936-43 / Annika A. Culver 7 The Garden of Grand Vision: Slums, Deviance, and Control in Manchukuo, 1940-41 / Kathryn Meyer 8 Salvaging Memories: Former Japanese Colonists in Manchuria and the Shimoina Project, 2001-12 / Ronald Suleski 9 Exile to Manchuria: Stories in the Qing and the PRC / Wang Ning 10 "War against the Earth": Military Farming in Communist Manchuria, 1949-75 / Sun Xiaoping

About the Author :
Norman Smith is a professor of history at the University of Guelph. He is the author of Intoxicating Manchuria: Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China's Northeast and Resisting Manchukuo: Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation, which was awarded the Canadian Women's Studies Association 2008 Book Prize. Contributors: David A. Bello, Blaine Chiasson, Annika A. Culver, Loretta E. Kim, Diana Lary, Kathryn Meyer, Wang Ning, Norman Smith, Ronald Suleski, and Sun Xiaoping.

Review :
Overall, Empire and Environment provides a rich array of scholarship that demonstrates the dynamic relationship between Manchuria's natural environment and a variety of distinctive cultures and political regimes over time. - Emily Matson (Pacific Affairs)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780774832922
  • Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of British Columbia Press
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Contemporary Chinese Studies
  • ISBN-10: 0774832924
  • Publisher Date: 10 Feb 2017
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 316


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