2) South Manchurian Railway. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...South Manchurian Railway, Japanese-developed enterprise, with a trackage of 701 mi (1128 km). The line from Changchun to Lushun (Port Arthur), originally belonging...

3) Manchuria. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...China comprising the modern-day provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning. It was the homeland of the Manchu people who conquered China in the 17th century and...

4) Mukden Incident. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Mukden Incident, see Manchurian Incident....

5) Manchu dynasty. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...Manchu dynasty (man-CHOOH, MAN-chooh) A dynasty, Manchurian in origin, that came to power in China in the seventeenth century and that greatly expanded China s control...

6) Cathay. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
..., name for North China used by medieval Europeans, derived from the Khitan (or Khitai), a Manchurian people who conquered S Manchuria and N China and founded the...

7) Matsuoka, Yosuke. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...the Univ. of Oregon, he served briefly in the foreign ministry and then entered the South Manchurian Railway Company (1921). He became a spokesman for the expansionist...

8) Jilin, province, China. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...(1994 est. pop. 25,150,000), 72,000 sq mi (186,528 sq km), NE China; one of the original Manchurian provinces. The capital is Changchun. It is bordered by Heilongjiang...

9) Chang Tso-lin. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...(KEY) , 1873-1928, Chinese general. Chang was of humble birth. As the leader of a unit of Manchurian militia he assisted (1904-5) the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese...

10) Shenyang. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...of Beijing. The capital of Liaoning province, it was the site of the so-called Mukden, or Manchurian, Incident (1931), in which the Japanese army used an explosion...