Research Question Worksheet
Research Question Worksheet
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Topic Political Elements in Manchukuo in China
Context: Manchukuo State between 1931 and 1945
Question #1: What led to the formation of the Manchukuo state?
| Observation | Source |
| The Manchukuo State was established by the Japanese Empire in 1931 four months after their withdrawal from Shanghai (51). Henry Puyi assumed the throne as under the name Kang-de in 1934 when it was first declared a monarchy. This was just a nominal but powerless appointment as head of state to put in some appearance of authority, since he was previously an emperor and an ethnic Manchukuo. Formation of Manchukuo had an international importance since it was viewed as an initial test for the national institute of settling disputes peacefully and non-imperialistically (51).The Japanese possession of Manchuria was seen as a necessary survival tactic for the Japanese and its control over Korea (61). | Duara, Prasenjit. Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern |
| The civilian government in Tokyo was concerned about the political and military activities in Manchuria. The Tokyo emperor therefore decided to set up a puppet regime with the Chinese in charge but the actual power belonged to the Japanese. The state of Manchukuo was created and Tokyo gave the Guangdong Army the responsibility over its security (163). | Hayes, Louis D. Political Systems of East Asia: China, Korea, and Japan. |
| More than thirty million Chinese people lived in Manchukuo under the colonial Japanese rule during the time the state was created (1). | Smith, Norman. Resisting Manchukuo: Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation |
These observations lead me to ask my question because it was not clear at first why the state was created and later collapsed after a short duration of time. I got to understand that the Japanese created the state and handed it to be led by a Chinese leader while in actual sense they are the ones who had the real power.
Topic: Political Elements in Manchukuo in China
Context: Manchukuo State between 1931 and 1945
Question #2: How and when did the regime of Manchukuo end?
| Observation | Source |
| Manchukuo collapsed in 1945 after the Soviet Union invaded Manchuria and this contributed greatly to the end of the second world war. The Manchukuo state was dissolved after this attack.
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Victoir, Laura A, and Victor Zatsepine. Harbin to Hanoi: The Colonial Built Environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940. |
| Five ethnic groups lived in Manchukuo. Around sixty thousand Russians were believed to live there. The Japanese and the Russian had always fought over the territory to have influence over it (5). This was likely to contribute to the fact that the Manchukuo was finally broken by the Soviet Union. | The Colonial Built Environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940. |
| The Soviet Union over prepared for the attack against Manchukuo. This was perhaps fuelled by the Russo-Japanese rivalry over the decades (7). Before the attack, a rumor was circulating that a band of dangerous criminals had been released from Russian prisons and would be in the first line of the invasion. They indeed came with the soldiers during the attack. The Russian Army came from all directions in attack of the Manchukuo state in August 1945.
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Nishimura, Hirokazu, and Susumu Kuroda. A Lost Mathematician, Takeo Nakasawa: The Forgotten Father of Matroid Theory. |
| Manchukuo was in amore dictatorial position than Japan itself. Before the Kanto Army came and took control over the thirty million Chinese and other people living there, it was a simple thing for the Japan connivers to draw up and build up new structures rather than developing the old ones (141). The Concordia Association headed my Muto as the head propagandist had the goal of preserving unity and harmony among the five known ethnic groups. The association also organized people into groups, which would help conquer the differences in social classes and oppose the communism and capitalism from the western worlds.
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Culver, Annika A. Glorify the Empire: Japanese Avant-Garde Propaganda in Manchukuo. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013. Print.
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| The Japanese were helpless as all sorts of horrific attacks were descended on them They were assaulted, pillaged and the women raped. Only four hundred thousand people managed to escape. Over six hundred thousand soldiers who were detained by the Russian Army in Siberia were made to work in severe weather condition of less than forty degrees Celsius. Most of them died because of these conditions (7).
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Nishimura, Hirokazu, and Susumu Kuroda. A Lost Mathematician, Takeo Nakasawa: The Forgotten Father of Matroid Theory. |
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The Manchukuo nationality was a weak sense of territorial nationality emphasizing civilization character (78). Politics in the state therefore ended as the regime collapsed with the Russian invasion of 1945.
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Duara, Prasenjit. Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern |
These observations lead me to ask my question because I needed a clarification as to how the Manchukuo regime ended and what led to its invasion. I also learned of the contributing factors as to why the state was brought down. __________
Works cited
Culver, Annika A. Glorify the Empire: Japanese Avant-Garde Propaganda in Manchukuo. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013. Print.
Duara, Prasenjit. Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern. Lanham [u.a.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. Print.
Hayes, Louis D. Political Systems of East Asia: China, Korea, and Japan. Armonk, N.Y: M.E. Sharpe, 2012. Print.
Nishimura, Hirokazu, and Susumu Kuroda. A Lost Mathematician, Takeo Nakasawa: The Forgotten Father of Matroid Theory. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2009. Internet resource.
Smith, Norman. Resisting Manchukuo: Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation. UBC Press, 2007. Internet resource.
Victoir, Laura A, and Victor Zatsepine. Harbin to Hanoi: The Colonial Built Environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012. Print.
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