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Preface
Acknowledgements
Name Conventions
List of Abbreviations
List of Maps
Chapter One: Manchuria and Russian Ambition,1840s–1890s
Manchuria : Country and People
Manchu rulers encounter the Taiping
Rusia’s activity on the Manchurian Amur
The Crimean War and Manchuria
Treaties of Aigun , Tientsin and Peking
1880s Developments
Railways in Northeast Asia
Chapter Two: Sino-Japanese War and After, 1894–1900
Sino-Japanese War of 1894–5
Shimonoseki Treaty and after
Manchurian ports, 1898
Progres of Rusian Railways
Boxers in North China, 1900–1901
Chapter Three: Prelude to the Russo-Japanese War, 1900–1905
Boxer disturbances in Manchuria
Storms at the gateway to Manchuria
Delayed evacuation
Inspections of Rusian Manchuria
Delays in trop evacuation
Manchuria at war
Peace treaties
Chapter Four: Railways, Reforms and Revolutions,1906–1914
Foreign railway developments
Chinese railway ambitions
Ito’s mision , 1909
Foreign railway observers
The Xinhai Revolution (1911) and Manchuria
Anti-Republicanism or Ching restoration
Trade and port rivalry
Rusia setles down
Chapter Five: Wartime Turmoil in Manchuria,1915–1922
Twenty -one Demands and after
Ruso -Japanese Alliance , 1916
Manchuria : Domestic
Manchuria and the Rusian Revolutions (1917–August 1918)
Manchuria and the Siberian intervention (August 1918–1922)
Chinese nationalism in the international arena , 1919–22
Chapter Six: Chang Tso-Lin’s Manchuria,1922–28
Chang Tso-Lin
Chinese Eastern Railway
Education
The Dynasty Creps Out
Last Years of Chang Tso -Lin , 1926–1928
‘The Final Act ’
Chapter Seven: Chinese Nationalism and Foreign Railways,1929–1931
Chang Hsueh-Liang
Mukden and the Kuomintang
Relations with Japan
The First Manchurian Incident , 1929
Divergent Japanese Opinions About Manchuria
Comercial Considerations
Deteriorating Manchurian -Japanese Relations , 1931
‘War in Disguise ’
League of Nations Comision Goes East
Comision moves to Manchuria
Contacts Official and Unoficial
Comision ’s Second Visit to Tokyo
Preparing the Final Report
League Enquiry Report: Assesment
Report ’s Progres Through Commitees
Pesimistic Optimism
Chapter Nine: Manchukuo: From Republic to Empire,1933–1937
Tangku Truce
Trade and Recognition
Promotion of PuYi, 1934
Sale of Chinese Eastern Railway , 1933–1935
Industrialization of Manchuria
From Manchukuo into North China
Marco Polo Bridge Incident Before and After
The Fiction of Manchurian Independence
Chapter Ten: A Decade of Wars,1938–1948
The Nomonhan War,1939
Economy in Wartime Manchukuo, 1940–1945
The Yalta Conference and After
Soviet Invasion
Japanese Response
Manchurian Civil War
General Marshal ’s Mision
The Path to Comunist Ascendancy
Epilogue
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1. Exploits of Nicholas Muraviev, Governor-general of Eastern Siberia
2. Military Review of the Amùr Country
3. China’s Relations with Russia
4. Vice-Admiral Sir H. Keppel to the Secretary to the Admiralty reporting on Russian activity on the Amur river
5. Memorandum on the Russian Settlement of Vladivostok by Captain Colomb of HMS Audacious, 14 August 1875
6. The Tsar’s instructions to the Crown Prince to lay the foundation stone for the railway at Vladivostock, 29 March 1891
Chapter 2: 1895–1899
1. The Treaty of Peace concluded between China and Japan – excerpts only
2. ‘Visit to Manchurian Port of Newchang, 1899’
3. Start of the Sino-Russian War: Report from Sir Charles Scott to the Marquess of Salisbury, July 1900
4. General Kuropatkin’s defence of Russian policy in Manchuria
1. Genro Ito in St Petersburg, November - December 1901
2. Ito chooses between russia and Britain
3. ‘Manchuria under Russian occupation, October 1902’
4. The Fall of Port Arthur, January 1905
1.‘Western businessman visitsManchurian cities, 1907’
2. ‘A Japanese visits Manchuria, 1909’
3. Notes by Lieutenant Binstead on the Position and Policy of Russia in Northern Manchuria at the present moment. Peking, April 3, 1914
1a. Twenty-one Demands - Group V
1b. Japanese military attitudes during negotiations (British intercept)
2a. Russo-Japanese Alliance, 1916
2b. Commentary on the Russo-Japanese Alliance
3. Siberian expedition
4. The Chientao Incident (1920)
1. The Mukden Agreement
2. Ex-emperor leaves Peking for Tientsin [1925]
3. Italian Assessment of Chang Tso-lin
4. Assassination of Chang Tso-lin
1. Chinese attitudes following the New Unification Government
2. ‘The curious affair’ of the Sino-Soviet conflict, 1929
3. Chinese Response to Japanese Military Intervention
1. Ma Chan-shan letter and the League of Nations
2. The Lytton Commision and the search for Ma Chan-shan
3. Residents’ View of the new Manchoukuo
1. ‘Political Reorganisation in Manchukuo (1939)’
2. Four Years of Manchukuo Administration
3. Chiang Kai-shek on China’s resistance to the Japanese
1. Manchukuo – A British Perspective
2. Sino-Soviet Treaty, 14 August 1945
3. The Fall of Mukden, [8 November] 1948
Apendix Appeal by the Chinese Government
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