Tap, tap, tap League of Nations typists wrote about Manchuria last week in Paris. They gossiped, chattered, primped their hair. The portable League Secretariat, pitched like a gypsy camp in the ...

AN earthquake of considerable intensity is reported to have taken place early on May 6 in northern Manchuria. Insufficient reports have so far been received to fix the epicentre with any precision ...

This 1930s footage of Manchuria China offers a window into daily life, rituals, and industrial progress in an urban setting. It begins with bustling city streets, storefronts, and buildings ...

Growing up, Fumina Oka knew little about the mysterious university her Taiwanese grandfather attended in northern China’s Manchuria during Japan’s occupation in the early 20th century. But as ...

A Daring Rescue Mission to Manchuria Armed only with pistols, five Americans infiltrate territory occupied by 30,000 Japanese troops in a race against the Russians.

THIS account of the latest of the great campaigns of modern history takes the story up to the close of the first stage of the Japanese advance into Manchuria, which was marked by the complete and ...

Jody Shields’s new novel, “The Winter Station,” takes place in 1910 Kharbin, a bleak Russian-controlled outpost in Manchuria. People are dying; their bodies are disappearing mysteriously ...

The intelligence activities of the South Manchuria Railway Company (SMR) “Research Department” (Chōsabu) are well known in Japan. However, according to recent studies based on comments by retired SMR ...

Ever since Chinese authorities seized the Soviet-operated Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, July 22) and expelled Communist agents from Manchuria, Chinese and Russian soldiers have scowled at each ...

In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transforation of Rural China Michael Meyer. Bloomsbury, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-1-62040-286-3 ...