2000/08/01 by Mark Elliott · 6 citations
Social Sciences · #China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations #Chinese history and philosophy #Philippine History and Culture
paper · doi:10.2307/2658945
openalex publication_date 2000/08/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
This essay examines the transformation from undifferentiated frontier to geographic region of that part of northeast Asia controversially referred to as Manchuria. This transition—from space to place, as it were—long has tended to be seen primarily in terms of the extension of colonial interests into China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. However, as I shall argue, the invention of this place began much earlier, in the seventeenth century, and owed substantially to the efforts of China's Manchu rulers, who claimed it as their homeland, the terre natale of the Qing dynasty (1644–1912). Even as the area was joined to the larger empire, Qing emperors took care to invest what I define as “Greater Mukden” with a unique identity.