Word: manchuria
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...race seemingly unconnected with the surrounding Mongolian peoples, thought to have migrated to the northern islands of Japan from Manchuria, a remnant of Neolithic stock. They are taller than the Japanese, heavier-built; their hairiness has been exaggerated from the fact that the men never shave and the women, admiring hirsute embellishment, daub themselves with mustache designs in pot-smut. They are bear-worshipers, non-agricultural...
...that Dr. W. W. Yen had been set up at Peking as "Chief Executive"* of China," with Dr. Wellington Koo as his Premier and Foreign Minister. He was allegedly supported by the victorious armies of General Chang Hsueh-liang, field commander for his father, the great Super-Tuchun of Manchuria, Chang...
...Mukden, the capital of Manchuria, a little man tugged delightedly at his large ears-a sign that he was greatly pleased, puzzled or vexed. He was the great Super-Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, the friend of Japan, the implacable foe of Soviet Russia, overlord by right of might throughout all Manchuria. He was pleased because his son, General Chang Hsueh-liang, had just entered Peking at the head of a victorious army...
...ruined desert city, uninhabited now for some 400 years. It is mentioned by Marco Polo under the name of Edzina. In modern times it has been visited by very few Europeans, prominent among whom has been Colonel Kozlov of Petrograd who recently made such startling discoveries in Manchuria...
Russia is still anxious to secure ascendancy in Manchuria so that she may develop her ports in the northern Pacific, and this action has undoubtedly re-awakened her former animosity. Prospects of a Russo-China alliance with a war of revenge against Japan have once more become threatening. And the European powers, by indirectly aiding Chang in the Tiensin crisis, have shown that they are ready to enter a defensive alliance with Japan in order to preserve their Chinese commercial interests...