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There is no such place as Manchuria, but the word still resonates like a bell struck a century before. The region is now more prosaically called dongbei the northeast yet its contemporary toponyms sing of its imperial past, when it was the homeland of the Manchu, China’s last dynastic rulers: White Banner township, Princess Tomb City, and a river named Scaly Dragon, for the
On September 18, 1931, a very small bomb caused a very minor explosion on the South Manchurian Railway just north of Mukden, a railway controlled by the Japanese and crucial to their economic domination of Manchuria. The explosion was denounced as the work of Chinese saboteurs. Two railway sleepers, half a dozen fish plates, one rifle, and two Chinese soldiers’ caps were