Taming China's Wilderness: Immigration, Settlement and the Shaping of the Heilongjiang Frontier, 1900-1931
| By: | Shan, Patrick Fuliang, Assoc Prof |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781409463894 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409463917 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Until the beginning of the twentieth century, the Chinese province of Heilongjiang, historically known as Northern Manchuria, remained a sparsely populated territory on the northeastern frontier. For about two centuries, the rulers of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) - whose historical homeland was in Manchuria - enforced a policy that prohibited Chinese immigration and settlement and maintained the region