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    As a political tactic, rulers often portray themselves in a certain way in order to stabilize their reign and rule more effectively. Some take the approach of uniqueness by setting themselves apart from their subject population while others take the approach of sameness by emphasizing the similarities in which they share with the people. Not exclusively limited to apartness or sameness, some rulers have shown to employ a mix of both ruling styles. It is these versatile rulers who have experienced

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    The Current Situation and Protection of Manchu The Manchu is the language of the Man people (also called Manchu people) originated in northeast China. Manchu was one of the official languages together with Chinese in the Qing Dynasty (1644AD-1912AD). Due to its own demerit in expressing and other social political reasons, nowadays there is only less than 100 people that still take Manchu as their native language. Measures have been taken by the government and scholars to save the language from extinction

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    How Did Manchuria Occur

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    years, until they were dragged in by Japan, when the war was over all of the Axis powers received repercussions. On September 18, 1931, eight years before the war began, Japan invaded Manchuria. China at the time was fighting a civil war; which made Manchuria the ideal expansion ("World War II: Timeline."). Manchuria was rich with natural resources and raw materials. If Japan could claim the land they would not have to rely on other countries for these resources. The resources would also help Japan

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    an extremely turbulent time in the Far East. The Soviets and Japanese had been at each other’s throats since the Russo-Japanese War from 1904 to 1905. The Treaty of Portsmouth ended the war in September 1905, which had given the Japanese South Manchuria and gave them the lease on the Liaotung Peninsula. This important because the Japanese would create the Kwantung Army to defend this area. “The number of regular troops Japan might station in the Kwantung Territory was not stipulated by treaty

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    next to the revolution, fifteen Chinese provinces declared their independence and prepare to build a new republic government. 1st January 1912, the first Asian presidential system country- Republic of China was built in Nanjing then the emperor of Manchuria abdicated at end of this year. From this year, four thousand years’ Chinese absolute monarchy was ruined meanwhile two thousand years sacred and inviolable emperor system was buried. All future generations will not forget the man who devoted his

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    Japan Invades Manchuria Name: Preethi Narayanan Class: World Civics After the tremendous World War I the Japanese had successfully defeated Russia, in addition they were considered the one and only industrialized country in the far east. The war between the Russians and the Japanese had been caused because both the countries wanted to control Korea and Manchuria. After Japan’s war with China they had a much more new, evolved and superior army, which is one cause for Russia to have lost the war

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    territory, government and capacity to enter into legal relations (Shen, 2014). At that period, Manchuria had about 37 million permanent populations. She consisted of about 1 million square kilometers of territory. It is formed by Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang province (Zhang, 1985). For structure of the government, republic system is adopted. Puyi is the leader. Before the establishment of Manchuria, the government was able to control the area effectively. After the establishment, she was effective

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    developed out of the rivalry between Russia and Japan for control of Korea and Manchuria. In 1898 Russia had pressured China into granting it a lease for the strategically important port of Port Arthur. Russia thereby entered into occupation of the port. Additionally, in 1896 Russia had concluded an alliance with China against Japan and, in the process, had won rights to extend the Trans-Siberian Railroad Across Chinese-held Manchuria to the Russian seaport of Vladivostok, thus gaining control of an important

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    that led up to this attack were the occupation of Manchuria in 1931, the invasion of remainder of China in 1937, the bombing of the American gunboat Punay on December 1937 in China, the Invasion of Indochina in 1940, and U.S. Oil Embargo. The occupations of Manchuria in 1931 was when the Japan’s Army had invaded one of China’s Northern provinces Manchuria which went against the rules of the League of Nation. The reasons that Japan had invaded Manchuria was because the Japanese wanted to expand their

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