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The term "Manchuria" is deprecated among people of the People's Republic of China (PRC) due to its association with Japanese imperialism, the puppet state of Manchukuo of the Empire of Japan, and Manchurian nationalism. Official state documents use the term Northeast Region (东北; Dōngběi) to describe the region.
Manchuria’s natural resources attracted an unending stream of land-hungry peasants and other voluntary Chinese immigrants to Manchuria, despite the official ban. The flow of immigration became a flood tide in the 19th and 20th centuries as the Qing government actively sponsored planned colonization of virgin lands in Jilin and Heilongjiang.
Manchuria is the homeland of the Manchu people. "Manchu" is a name introduced by Hong Taiji of the Qing dynasty in 1636 for the Jurchen people, a Tungusic people. The population grew from about 1 million in 1750 to 5 million in 1850 and to 14 million in 1900, largely because of the immigration of Han farmers.
Manchuria ( (Manchu: Manju, 满洲|t, 滿洲, Mǎnzhōu, Russian: Манчжурия, Mongolian: Манж) is a historical name given to a vast geographic region in northeast Asia. Depending on the definition of its extent, Manchuria either falls entirely within China, or also includes the Russian maritime provinces.
Accessed 6 November 2024. Manchuria - Imperialism, Japanese Occupation, Cold War: In the closing decades of the 19th century, foreign powers, particularly Russia and Japan, began to eye Manchuria as a fruitful field for imperialist expansion. The conflict between Russia and Japan for the control of Manchuria first raged over the possession of ...
The name "Manchuria" is controversial. It comes from a European adoption of the Japanese name "Manshu," which the Japanese began to use in the nineteenth century. Imperial Japan wanted to pry that area free from Chinese influence. Eventually, in the early 20th century, Japan would annex the region outright.
Northeast China (Chinese: 东北; pinyin: Dōngběi) is a region of the People's Republic of China. It consists of three provinces, namely Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang. The heartland of the region is the Northeast China Plain, the largest plain in China, with an area of over 350,000 km 2 (140,000 sq mi). It is separated from the Russian ...
Manchuria , or Northeast Chinese Dongbei or Tung-pei , Historical region, northeastern China. It consists of the modern provinces of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang; the northeastern portion of Inner Mongolia autonomous region is sometimes also included. Throughout the early Chinese dynasties, China had only limited control over Manchuria.
Manchuria Region of ne China, now included in the provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning. Manchuria is rich in mineral deposits, and has become one of China's leading sites for heavy industry. It is a major agricultural area, whose chief product is soya beans. Dalian is the principal port.
Managing Manchuria. In October 1905, Japan’s wartime provisional government (Manshū sōshireikan) gave way to the Kwantung Government-General, a formal structure of military rule that took orders from General Ōshima Yoshimasa and was responsible for both the administration of railways and maintenance of public order in the newly acquired territory into which hundreds of Japanese carpet ...