Taming China's Wilderness: Immigration, Settlement And The Shaping Of The Heilongjiang Frontier, 1900-1931

For most of its rule, the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) - whose historical homeland was in Heilongjiang - enforced a policy that prohibited Chinese immigration and settlement and maintained the region's reputation as the Great Northern Wilderness. Covering the period between the reversal of the anti-immigration policy in 1900 and the Japanese annexation of Heilongjiang into their Manchuko state in 1931, this book investigates a territory undergoing rapid and sustained change, and adds to the on-going scholarly interest in border and frontier studies.

• • Author: Assoc Prof Patrick Fuliang Shan
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Apr 28, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 240 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1409463893
• • ISBN-13: 9781409463894