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List of contents
Part One
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-Russian Relations in the Eighteenth Century.
Chapter Five: The Treaties of Aigun and Peking.
Chapter Six: 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 Sphere 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: Soviet Occupation, Civil War and Communist Victory, 1945–49.
Chapter Thirteen: The Northeast through Literature.
Chapter Fourteen: The Northeast Under Mao.
Chapter Fifteen: The Northeast After Mao.
Part Two
Chapter Sixteen: History and Geography: Heilongjiang.
Chapter Seventeen: History and Geography: Jilin.
Chapter Eighteen: History and Geography: Liaoning.
Chapter Nineteen: The Mongol Component in Manchuria.
Chapter Twenty: Jehol / Rehe / Chengde: The Perspective of “New Qing History”.
Select Bibliography
About the author
Mark Gamsa is Associate Professor of History at Tel Aviv University. He gained his DPhil from Oxford University in 2003 with a thesis on Manchuria in the twentieth century. He reads fluent Chinese alongside several European languages and is also fluent in Russian.
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Mark Gamsa’s Manchuria: A Concise History... meets a significant need, deftly weaving together the many diffuse strands which make up the history of what we now call northeast China. Conveniently broken down into easily digestible chunks, each dealing with a key historic juncture and the parties involved, the book sheds light on both known and overlooked aspects of Manchurian life.
