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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
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Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; About the Editors and Contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; Maps; Introduction; Part I Competing Railway Imperialisms; 1. The Chinese Eastern Railway from the First Sino-Japanese War until the Russo-Japanese War; 2. Japan's South Manchuria Railway Company in Northeast China, 1906-34; 3. Sino-Soviet Tensions and Soviet Administrative Control over the Chinese Eastern Railway, 1917-25; 4. Railway as Political Catalyst: The Chinese Eastern Railway and the 1929 Sino-Soviet Conflict
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Part II Competing Railway Nationalisms5. Technology Transfer in Modern China: The Case of Railway Enterprises in Central China and Manchuria; 6. Chinese Railroads, Local Society, and Foreign Presence: The Tianjin-Pukou Line in pre-1949 Shandong; 7. Railways in Communist Strategy and Operations in Manchuria, 1945-48; 8. Return of the Chinese Changchun Railway to China by the USSR; Epilogue: Rivers of Steel: Manchuria's Railways as a Natural Extension of the Sea Lines of Communication; Selected Bibliography; Index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780765625144
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Manchurian Railways and the Opening of China: An International History
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