Manchukuo

Source: Wikipedia


1. Manchu tribes conquer China.
2. They replace the Ming dynasty with the Qing.
3. The emperors fail to integrate their homeland into China.
(why? and how?)
4. The legal/ ethnic division persists.
5. The Qing dynasty starts falling apart in the 1800s.
6. The power of the court in Beijing weakens.
7. In 1858, Russia gains nominal control over Outer Manchuria. (Supplementary Treaty of Beijing).
8. Russia makes further efforts to take control over the rest of Manchuria.
9. Inner Manchuria comes under strong Russian influence in the 1890s with the building of the Chinese Eastern Railway through Harbin to Vladivostok.
10.Russo-Japanese War 1904-05
11.Japanese influence replaces Russia's in Inner Manchuria

Yeah... just pass China around like Kim Kardishan's ass.

12.Japan builds the South Manchurian Railway to Port Arthur.
13.Between World War I and World War II Manchuria becomes a political and military battleground between Russia, Japan, and China.
(I believe this was the same case for Korea)
13. Japan moves into outer Machuria as a result of 1917 Russian Revolution chaos.
14. Outer Manchuria returns to Soviet control by 1925 because of Soviet military successes and American economic pressure.
15. During the warlord period in China, the warlord Zhang Zuolin established himself in Inner Manchuria with Japanese backing. Later the Japanese Kantogun found him too independent and assassinated him in 1928.
16. The Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931.
(Whatever happened to the soviet successes and american pressure?)
17. Japanese militarists create a Japanese-aligned puppet state.
18. The last Emperor of China Puyi was invited to act as the head of state for Manchuria. (Puyi was nothing more than a figurehead and real authority rested in the hands of the Japanese military officials. )

19. On 18 February 1932 the State of Manchuria was proclaimed and recognized by Japan on 16 September 1932. The city of Changchun, renamed Xinjing became the capital of the new entity.

How funky! I wonder what the Chinese think of Manchukuo now. Shameful history of China everyone is trying to forget? Evidence of Japanese Barbarianism?