The Blue Lotus, for example, was inspired by the Mukden incident that resulted in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

It was noted that " Chinese colonization " of " Mongolia and Manchuria " led to the conclusion " to a conviction that the day of the barbarian was finally over.

In September 1931, a section of the railway was lightly damaged by the Japanese Kwantung Army as a pretext for an invasion of Manchuria.

This new entity was recognized only by the governments of Italy and Nazi Germany ; the rest of the world still considered Manchuria legally part of China.

Japan was therefore left in control of Manchuria until the Soviet Union's Red Army took over the area and returned it to China at the end of the Second World War.

Geographically the Tuoba Xianbei ruled Inner Mongolia and northern China, the Nirun ( Yujiulu Shelun was the first to use the title Khagan in 402 ) ruled Outer Mongolia, the Khitan were concentrated in Southern Manchuria north of Korea and the Shiwei were located to the north of the Khitan.

* 1909 – Itō Hirobumi, Resident-General of Korea, was shot to death by Korean independence supporter Ahn Jung-geun at the Harbin train station in Manchuria.

There were originally 18 provinces, all of which in China proper, but later this number was increased to 22, with Manchuria and Xinjiang being divided or turned into provinces.

Likewise, Manchuria was also governed by military generals until its division into provinces, though some areas of Xinjiang and Manchuria were lost to the Russian Empire in the mid-19th century.

Manchuria was originally separated from China proper by the Inner Willow Palisade, a ditch and embankment planted with willows intended to restrict the movement of the Han Chinese into Manchuria, as the area was off-limits to the Han Chinese until the Qing government started colonizing the area with them later on in the dynasty's rule, especially since the 1860s.

Furthermore, similar to Xinjiang which was converted into a province earlier, the Qing government also turned Manchuria into three provinces in the early 20th century, officially known as the " Three Northeast Provinces ", and established the post of Viceroy of Three Northeast Provinces to oversee these provinces, making the total number of regional viceroys to nine.

The Qing Dynasty started colonizing Manchuria with Han Chinese later on in the dynasty's rule, but the Manchu area was still separated from modern-day Inner Mongolia by the Outer Willow Palisade, which kept the Manchu and the Mongols in the area separate.

Initial success in China led to an extended effort by the President to effect the Open Door Policy, particularly in Manchuria ; this was not successful due in large part to the President's reliance on the inexperienced Knox, who failed to properly assess the objections of Japan and Russia.

The eventual fall of the Sui dynasty was due to the many losses in Southern Manchuria and North Korea.

" Indeed, this was true of the dynasty's borders in multiple directions ; modern Xinjiang, Tibet, Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, and regions to the southeast were foreign to the Qin, and even areas over which they had military control were culturally distinct.

This name was used in Chinese documents until the early 20th century, when Manchuria was converted into three provinces by the late Qing government.

Although no part of Manchuria was glaciated during the Quaternary, the surface geology of most of the lower-lying and more fertile parts of the region consists of very deep layers of loess, which have been formed by the wind-born movement of dust and till particles formed in glaciated parts of the Himalayas, Kunlun Shan and Tien Shan, as well as the Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts.

During the Yuan Dynasty ( 1271 – 1368 ), Manchuria was administered under the Liaoyang province.

However, Chiang's allied commander Zhang Xueliang, whose forces were used in his attack and whose homeland of Manchuria had been recently invaded by the Japanese, did not support the attack on the Communists.

Under the Mongols ' control, Jurchens were mainly divided in two groups and treated differently: the ones who were born and raised in North China and fluent in Chinese were considered as Chinese people ( Han ); but the people who were born and raised in Jurchen's homeland ( Manchuria ) without a Chinese-speaking abilities were treated as Mongols politically.

Other linguistists, including Kim Banghan, Alexander Vovin, and J. Marshall Unger argue that Japanese is related to the pre-Goguryeo language of the central and southern part of Korean peninsula, including what would become the Kingdom of Silla, and that Old Korean is Goguryeo with a pre-Goguryeo Japonic substrate, in part, because Japanese-like toponyms found in the historical homeland of Silla were also distributed in southern part of Korean peninsula, and are not found in the northern part of Korean peninsula or south-western Manchuria.

Manchuria was the homeland of several Tungusic tribes, including the Ulchs and Nani.

The Treaty of Aigun () was a 1858 treaty between the Russian Empire, and the empire of the Qing Dynasty, the sinicized-Manchu rulers of China, that established much of the modern border between the Russian Far East and Manchuria ( the original homeland of the Manchu people and the Qing Dynasty ), which is now known as Northeast China.

With the Manchu Qing dynasty now firmly in control of the South, it was in a position to deal with what they saw as Russian encroachment in Manchuria, the dynasty's ancient homeland.

The Japanese military transferred the bulk of their troops from the Japanese homeland and Manchuria as part of Operation " Ichi-Go " or " Tairiku Datsu Sakusen " which roughly translates as ' Operation to Break through the Continent '.

None of the Japanese cognates have been found in the historical homeland of Buyeo and Goguryeo in the northern part of the Korean peninsula or south-western Manchuria.

Manchukuo ( Japanese for " Manchu State ") was a Constitutional monarchy in Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia, the region being the historical homeland of the Manchus who founded the Qing Dynasty of China.

Between 1940 and 1942 he made several visits to Manchukuo ( Japanese occupied Manchuria ) to instruct his martial art.

Manchuria can refer to any one of several regions of various size.

Over the next several decades, the Jurchen, took control over most of Manchuria.

Ambiguities in the treaties that ceded Outer Manchuria to Russia led to dispute over the political status of several islands.

The Jurchens ' early rival was the Liao Dynasty, which had held sway over northern China, including Manchuria and part of the Mongol region for several centuries.

Chinese in Manchuria organized volunteer armies to oppose the Japanese and the new state required a war lasting several years to appease the country.

The founding of the People's Republic of China saw several changes: the region around Chengde, previously part of Rehe Province ( historically part of Manchuria ), and the region around Zhangjiakou, previously part of Chahar Province ( historically part of Inner Mongolia ), were merged into Hebei, extending its borders northwards beyond the Great Wall.

At this time, much of China was divided up into " spheres of influence ": Germany dominated the Shandong peninsula and the Huang He ( Hwang-Ho ) valley ; Russia dominated the Liaodong Peninsula and Manchuria ; the United Kingdom dominated Weihaiwei and the Yangtze Valley ; whereas France dominated the Guangzhou Bay and several other southern provinces neighboring its colony in Vietnam.

Over the next several decades, the Jurchen ( later to be called Manchu ), took control over most of Manchuria, the cities of the Ming Liaodong falling to the Jurchen one after another.

Following the hostilities he served a tour at the Imperial Navy's Torpedo school and then was assigned to naval intelligence, where he spent several months posing as a laborer and conducting missions in Manchuria and Korea.

Since several major coal mines in southern Manchuria were controlled by Kuomintang Forces, Hegang became one of the main coal-producing area of Communist Force in the Chinese Civil-War, playing an important role in guaranteeing the acquisition of weapons and other war materials.

After his release from prison, he fled to Japanese-held Manchuria, and lived several years under Japanese protection, nursing his hatred for Chiang.

Based on Chinese historical texts the ancestry of the Mongol peoples can be traced back to the Donghu, a nomadic confederation occupying eastern Mongolia and Manchuria.

After the Northern Xiongnu fled into the Ili River valley in 91 CE, the nomadic Xianbei occupied the area from the borders of the Buyeo Kingdom in Manchuria to the Ili River of the Wusun people.

Hetao ( along with the rest of what now consists Inner Mongolia ) was then taken over by the Khitan Empire ( Liao Dynasty ), founded by the Khitans, a nomadic people originally from what is now the southern part of Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia.

The Xianbei () were a significant Mongolic nomadic people residing in Manchuria, Inner Mongolia and eastern Mongolia.