Manchurian Collection

Festival Stilt Dance and Dancers - Dalian, Manchukuo, China
Manchukuo - a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic, but in 1934 it became a constitutional monarchy

Escape from Harbin - July 1900 - Boxer Rebellion
In 1900, Chinas anti-foreigner Boxer Rebellion broke out and spread to Manchuria. The Russian Military moved in to quell the uprising

South Manchurian Railway - Interior of the Sleeping Car. Date: circa 1905

Yamagata Aritomo - inspection tour to Mukden, Manchuria
Two admirals and six generals surrounding Duke Yamagata Aritomo (1838-1922) ( also known as Yamagata Kyosuke, a Japanese field marshal, twice-elected Prime Minister of Japan)

South Manchurian Railway Company Hospital - Shenyang, China
South Manchurian Railway Company Hospital - Shenyang (formerly Mukden), China. With the region under Japanese control following victory in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)

Jilin province, China, Hsinking (Changchun), Japanese Shrine - formerly the capital of the Japanese Manchukuo Puppet State in China (Manchuria) up to 1945. Date: circa 1925

China - A Manchurian Girl in Traditional attire - Manchuria was occupied by the Japanese for most of the early part of the 20th century. Date: circa 1903

Different Hair & costume between Chinese / Manchurian Women - Beijing. Date: circa 1907

China, Manchuria - Manchu Troupe before Fanzoj. Date: circa 1905

Manchurian Criticism
At Harbin, Manchuria, the author of a play, disapproving of the production, mounts the stage and attacks the principal actors with a hammer he happens to have with him. Date: 1933

Japanese / Manchurian / Red-crowned CRANE - pair dancing in snow (Grus japonensis)

Japanese / Red-Crowned / Manchurian CRANE - leaping (Grus japonensis)

JAPANESE / Manchurian / Red-crowned CRANE - two in snow (Grus japonensis)

Japanese / Manchurian / Red-Crowned CRANE - courting dance (Grus japonensis). Japanese Crane

Lin Biao (1907 - 1971)
Lin Biao (Piao), Chinese Communist military leader, co-leader of the Manchurian Field Army of the Peoples Liberation Army

Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Army Wintering near Shaho
Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Army Wintering near the Shaho River along the MukdenPort Arthur spur of the China Far East Railway north of Liaoyang, Manchuria

Russo-Japanese War - 3rd Army Division at Battle of Shaho
Japanese Commander and his staff of the Third Army at the Battle of Shaho (Saka no kaisen) - the second large-scale land battle of the Russo-Japanese War fought along a 37-mile front centred at

Russo-Japanese War - Captured Wagons, Office and Train
Russo-Japanese War - Captured Russian baggage wagons, The Head Office of the Military Railways at Dairen (now Dalian, formerly Dalny)

A Gateway in Outer Manchuria - Russo-Japanese War period - likely to still have been under Russian control at this stage (only fell under Japanese influence after the 1917 Revolution). Date: 1905

South Manchurian Railway - Interior of the Dining Car. Date: circa 1905

Protecting Russian territory in Manchuria
A young Russian soldier guarding the security of Manchuria. Date: 1904

China unhappy with European and Japanese forign policy
Upright Europe (represented by the woman (as Europa) on left) to a youthful and confident Japan (the central figure): " Your old neighbour (an unflatteringly-depicted China on right)

Electrified Manchurian. Print shows a jagged-edged depiction of a man on horseback, holding raised sword. Verbal puns. Date 1895

Russian men travelling by rickshaw in Manchuria
Two Russian men travelling by rickshaw in Manchuria - now China. Area controlled by Russia between 1896-1924. Possibly at Harbin / Pinyin. Date: circa 1908

Chinese Cobbler at Harbin, China (Russia)
Chinese Cobbler at Harbin, China (Russian territory between 1896-1924). Date: circa 1908

Train routes through Eastern Asia operated by the South Manchurian Railway Co. Date: circa 1905

Japanese Military leaders st Shenyang, Manchuria
The Heads of the Japanese Military at the headquarters of their Manchurian Armies at Mukden (now Shenyang), Manchuria following the end of the Russo-Japanese war (1904-1905)

Japanese at Mukden
Japanese attack Mukden, Manchurian capital, take the city and hold it until the end of World War Two

Russian field hospital in France
The Russians specialised in Red Cross work, developing field hospital organisations since the Manchurian War. Pictured is a hospital staffed entirely by Russians in France

Old Manchurian Man
An old Manchurian man with a wrinkled face and goatie beard, photographed in Peking

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