Manchuria and Modern East Asia

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

"Cradle of Conflict": Manchuria and the Making of Modern East Asia As a historical "cradle of conflict" between a variety of competing ethnicities, empires, and nationalities, Manchuria is an important key to understanding the construction of the modern nation-state in East Asia from the 17th to 21st centuries. From the ethnically Manchu Qing Dynasty to imperial Russia, from the Japanese puppet-state of Manchukuo to the Republic of China to the People's Republic of China, this course will chart how rulers and intellectuals from a variety of ethnic and national contexts conceptualized "Manchuria" to further their own imperial and national aspirations.