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This unique and compelling analysis of Manchuria's environmental history demonstrates how the region's geography has shaped China's past. Since the 17th century, the call of the Manchurian wilderness, with its abundant wildlife, timber and mining deposits, has led several empires to do battle for its riches. Chinese, Japanese, Manchu, Russian and other imperial forces have defied unrelenting summers and unforgiving winters as they fought for sovereignty over this vast 'frontier'.0Going beyond the traditional focus on rivalries between Manchuria's colonizing forces, the volume examines the interplay of climate and competing imperial interests in the region's vibrant - and violent - cultural narrative. Families that settled this borderland reaped its riches while at the mercy of an unforgiving and hotly contested landscape.0The volume also explores the role of Manchuria in China's social and political evolution, offering an understanding of how the geopolitical future of this global economic power is rooted in its past

Manchuria : history and environment / Diana Lary -- Rival empires on the hunt for Sable and people in seventeenth-century Manchuria / David A. Bello -- Inclement weather and human error : regular irregularities in the Manchurian tribute system during the Qing Dynasty / Loretta E. Kim -- Producing full-fat controversy : the politicization of dairy production in post-colonial north Manchuria, 1924-30 / Laine Chiasson -- "Hibernate no more!" : winter, health, and the great outdoors / Norman Smith -- Constructing a rural utopia : propaganda images of Japanese settlers in northern Manchuria, 1936-43 / Annika A. Culver -- The garden of grand vision : slums, deviance, and control in Manchukuo, 1940-41 / Kathryn Meyer -- Salvaging memories : former Japanese colonists in Manchuria and the Shimoina project, 2001-12 / Ronald Suleski -- Exile to Manchuria : stories in the Qing and the PRC / Wang Ning -- "War against the earth" : military farming in communist Manchuria, 1949-75 / Sun Xiaoping

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Editorial: Into Double Figures -- Dr E. O. W. Whitehouse and the 1858 trans-Atlantic Gable -- Introduction -- Historical Background -- The Laying of the Gable -- The Destruction of the Cable -- A Modern View of the Causes of Failure -- Conclusion -- Note -- Acknowledgements -- Notes and References -- Isaac Newton's Steamer -- Notes -- Gunpowder and Mining in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe -- The Invention of Blasting -- The Technique of Blasting and i t s Development -- Notes

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- A New Approach to the History of Structural Engineering -- Introduction -- The Conventional Approach to History-Theory and Practice -- The New Approach to History-the Design Procedure -- The Historical Development of Engineering Design -- Conclusion -- Notes -- The National Association of German-American Technologists and Technology Transfer between Germany and the United States, 1884-1930 -- I -- II -- III -- Notes -- Edison in the Mountains: the Magnetic Ore Separation Venture, 1879-1900 -- Acknowledgements -- Notes

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Alcohol and Opium in China -- 2 Manchurian Context -- 3 Evaluating Alcohol -- 4 Selling Alcohol, Selling Modernity -- 5 Writing Intoxicant Consumption -- 6 The Hostess Scare -- 7 Reasoning Addiction, Taking the Cures -- 8 The Opium Monopoly's "Interesting Discussion" -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Norman Smith: "Mensch und Wasser". Udo Pfriemer Buchverlag in der Bauverlag GmbH, Wiesbaden und Berlin 1985, 239 S. mit 58 Abb., geb., Sonderausgabe 24,- DM

In the Japanese colonial state of Manchukuo (1932–45) a critical Chinese-language literature emerged to shine a light on the failure of colonial authorities to actualize the socio-political ideology through which they sought to legitimize their rule. This article analyzes Dan Di's literary legacy to problematize received interpretations of Japanese rule in Manchukuo. Dan was partly educated in Manchukuo and in Japan, and used the educational and career opportunities offered her to establish a career as a cultural critic. Under Japanese colonial auspices, she aspired to realize her potential as a Chinese new woman writer, determined to act as a spokesperson for the underprivileged. Ironically, the critical nature of her writings fueled the anti-Manchukuo narratives that led to her own downfall, as any success in such an oppressive context was deemed suspect. Dan Di's career underscores the vital endurance of Chinese May Fourth-inspired ideals of the new woman in a Japanese colonial context.