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.

Manchuria was the homeland of several nomadic tribes, including the Manchu, Ulchs and Hezhen.

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

In other international issues, Beria ( along with Mikoyan ) correctly foresaw the victory of Mao Zedong in the Chinese Civil War and greatly helped the communist success by letting the Communist Party of China use Soviet-occupied Manchuria as a staging area and arranging huge weapons shipments to the People's Liberation Army, mainly from the recently-captured equipment of the Japanese Kwantung Army.

With the encouragement of the Soviet Union, Manchuria was then used as a staging ground during the Chinese Civil War for the Communist Party of China, which emerged victorious in 1949.

With Soviet encouragement, the Chinese Communists used Manchuria as a staging ground until the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949.

With the encouragement of the Soviet Union, Manchuria was used as a staging ground during the Chinese Civil War for the Communist Party of China, which emerged victorious in 1949.

Inukai's successors, military men chosen by Saionji Kinmochi, the last surviving genrō, recognized Manchukuo and generally approved the army's actions in securing Manchuria as an industrial base, an area for Japanese emigration, and a potential staging ground for war with the Soviet Union.

Japan's first objective was to secure its lines of communication and supply to the Asian mainland, enabling it to conduct a ground war in Manchuria.

The senior Japanese commanders and all ground, sea, air and auxiliary forces within China ( excluding Manchuria ), Formosa and French Indo-China north of 16 ° north latitude shall surrender to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.

b. The senior Japanese commanders and all ground, sea, air and auxiliary forces within Manchuria, Korea north of 38 ° north latitude and Karafuto shall surrender to the Commander in Chief of Soviet Forces in the Far East.

Air support of ground operations would be provided by the 5th Air Group, under Lt. Gen. Hideyoshi Obata, which was transferred to Formosa from Manchuria.

Bilge's khaganate spanned vast steppes from the Caspian Sea to Manchuria ; he also invaded the western sections of the Chinese territories.

In addition, the Chinese Communists were able to fill the political vacuum left in Manchuria after Soviet forces withdrew from the area and thus gained China's prime industrial base.

* 1932 – The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo ( the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria ) independent from the Republic of China.

The Khitan, who were independent after their separation from the proto-Mongol Kumo Xi ( of Wuhuan origin ) in 388 AD, continued as a minor power in Manchuria until one of them, Abaoji ( 872-926 ), established the Khitan Liao Dynasty ( 907-1125 ).

In the first year, Germany received one million tons of cereals, half a million tons of wheat, 900, 000 tons of oil, 100, 000 tons of cotton, 500, 000 tons of phosphates and considerable amounts of other vital raw materials, along with the transit of one million tons of soybeans from Manchuria.

Han Chinese and Mongols were banned from settling in Manchuria.

The Uyghur Khaganate stretched from the Caspian Sea to Manchuria and lasted from AD 745 to 840.

Japan withdrew from the League of Nations after being condemned for its incursion into Manchuria.

Capra describes it as " presenting a general picture of two worlds ; the slave and the free, and the rise of totalitarian militarism from Japan's conquest of Manchuria to Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia.

* The Manchu under their leader Huang Taiji raid the Ming Chinese province of Shandong from their base in Manchuria.

In Korea, the Goryeo Kingdom flourished and faced external threats from the Liao Dynasty ( Manchuria ).

* February 18 – Japan declares Manzhouguo ( Japanese name for Manchuria ) formally independent from China.

* Toi invasion: Jurchen pirates from the Khitan Liao Dynasty in Manchuria invade Kyūshū of Heian-era Japan.

* Later Jīn Dynasty, or Later Jinn Dynasty ( from 1616 ) ( 後金 ), later known as the Qing Dynasty ( from 1636 ), Jurchen-founded in 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.

# The above, plus Outer Manchuria ( Russian Manchuria ): the area from the Amur and Ussuri rivers to the Stanovoy Mountains and the Sea of Japan.

The climate of Manchuria has extreme seasonal contrasts, ranging from humid, almost tropical heat in the summer to windy, dry, Arctic cold in the winter.

This explains why, whereas corresponding latitudes of North America were fully glaciated during glacial periods of the Quaternary, Manchuria, though even colder, always remained too dry to form glaciers – a state of affairs enhanced by stronger westerly winds from the surface of the ice sheet in Europe.