Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 3
6. Manchuria: History and Environment 28
7. Rival Empires on the Hunt for Sable and People in Seventeenth-Century Manchuria 53
8. Inclement Weather and Human Error: Regular Irregularities in the Manchurian Tribute System during the Qing Dynasty 80
9. Producing Full-Fat Controversy: The Politicization of Dairy Production in Post-Colonial North Manchuria, 1924–30 107
10. “Hibernate No More!”: Winter, Health, and the Great Outdoors 130
11. Constructing a Rural Utopia: Propaganda Images of Japanese Settlers in Northern Manchuria, 1936–43 152
12. The Garden of Grand Vision: Slums, Deviance, and Control in Manchukuo, 1940–41 179
13. Salvaging Memories: Former Japanese Colonists in Manchuria and the Shimoina Project, 2001–12 197
14. Exile to Manchuria: Stories in the Qing and the PRC 221
15. “War against the Earth”: Military Farming in Communist Manchuria, 1949–75 248
16. Glossary 276
17. Contributors 286
18. Index 289