1) Manchuria. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Manchuria is separated from Russia largely by the Amur, Argun, and Ussuri rivers, from North Korea by the Yalu and Tumen rivers, and from Mongolia by the Da Hinggan...
2) Manchurian Incident. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Manchurian Incident, or Mukden Incident, 1931, confrontation that gave Japan the impetus to set up a puppet government in Manchuria. After the Russo-Japanese War...
3) Manchu. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Manchuria for many centuries and who ruled China from 1644 until 1912. These people, related to the Tungus, were descended from the Jurchen, a tribe known in Asia...
4) Liaoning. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Bohai and West Korea Bay. The capital is Shenyang (Mukden). A part of Manchuria, it encompasses the Liaodong peninsula and the plain of the Liao River. The Liao River...
5) Manchukuo. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...The Japanese invaded Manchuria in 1931 and founded Manchukuo in 1932. Changchun, the capital, was renamed Xinjing [Chinese,=new capital]. Pu Yi, last of the Manchu...
6) Russo-Japanese War. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Japanese War, 1904-5, imperialistic conflict that grew out of the rival designs of Russia and Japan on Manchuria and Korea. Russian failure to withdraw from Manchuria...
7) China. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Republic of China, country (2000 pop. 1,295,000,000), 3,691,502 sq mi (9,561,000 sq km), E Asia. The most populous country in the world, China has a 4,000-mi (6,400-km)...
8) Chang Tso-lin. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Chang was of humble birth. As the leader of a unit of Manchurian militia he assisted (1904-5) the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese War. He held various military posts...
9) Ozawa, Seiji. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Toho School of Music, Ozawa won competitions in Europe and the United States and was hired (1961) by the New York Philharmonic as an assistant conductor. He was director...
10) Sino-Japanese War, Second. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Japanese War, Second, 1937-45, conflict between Japanese and Chinese forces for control of the Chinese mainland. The war sapped the Nationalist government's strength...
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