Manchurian railways and the opening of China : an international history
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Manchurian railways and the opening of China : an international history
(A publication of the Northeast Asia seminar)
M.E. Sharpe, c2010
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Note
Published 2015 by Routledge
Bibliography: p. 209-221
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The railways of Manchuria offer an intriguing vantage point for an international history of northeast Asia. Before the completion of the Trans-Siberian railway in 1916, the only rail route from the Imperial Russian capital of St. Petersburg to the Pacific port of Vladivostok transited Manchuria. A spur line from the Manchurian city of Harbin led south to ice-free Port Arthur. Control of these two rail lines gave Imperial Russia military, economic, and political advantages that excited rivalry on the part of Japan and unease on the part of weak and divided China. Meanwhile, the effort to defend and retain that strategic hold against rising Japanese power strained distant Moscow. Control of the Manchurian railways was contested in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5; Japan's 1931 invasion and establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo; the second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in Asia; and, the Chinese civil war that culminated in the Communist victory over the Nationalists. Today, the railways are critical to plans for development of China's sparsely populated interior. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to explore this fascinating history.
Table of Contents
- Introduction, Bruce A. Elleman, Elisabeth Koell, Y. Tak Matsusaka
- Part I Competing Railway Imperialisms
- Chapter 1 The Chinese Eastern Railway from the First Sino-Japanese War until the Russo-Japanese War, S.C.M. Paine
- Chapter 2 Japan's South Manchuria Railway Company in Northeast China, 1906-34, Y. Tak Matsusaka
- Chapter 3 Sino-Soviet Tensions and Soviet Administrative Control over the Chinese Eastern Railway, 1917-25, Bruce A. Elleman
- Chapter 4 Railway as Political Catalyst: The Chinese Eastern Railway and the 1929 Sino-Soviet Conflict, Felix Patrikeeff
- Part II Competing Railway Nationalisms
- Chapter 5 Technology Transfer in Modern China: The Case of Railway Enterprises in Central China and Manchuria, Chang Jui-te
- Chapter 6 Chinese Railroads, Local Society, and Foreign Presence: The Tianjin-Pukou Line in pre-1949, Shandong, Elisabeth Koell
- Chapter 7 Railways in Communist Strategy and Operations in Manchuria, 1945-48, Harold M. Tanner
- Chapter 8 Return of the Chinese Changchun Railway to China by the USSR, Zhang Shengfa
- epi Epilogue, Bruce A. Elleman
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