{"product_id":"territorial-natures-sakura-christmas-9780226846255","title":"Territorial Natures: Imperial Japan and the Mongolian Question","description":"\u003cb\u003eA critical account of the Japanese occupation in Inner Mongolia.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Early in the twentieth century, the steppe borderlands between China and Mongolia erupted in violence. As imperial Japan expanded into this area, this crisis between nomadic and settler communities posed fundamental problems in governance. In response, Japanese and Mongol leaders together proposed a radical solution: Demarcating an autonomous region in Manchukuo for minority peoples, a new kind of political space that would later define the territorial structure of Communist China. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eTerritorial Natures\u003c\/i\u003e, Sakura Christmas explores how the fraught partition of this autonomous region warped the ethnic and environmental boundaries of Manchukuo. She challenges its origin story as a socialist invention by the Chinese state, instead seeing it as also a fascist extension from the Japanese occupation. By reading Chinese and Mongolian sources against Japanese archives, Christmas reveals how this contested history seeded the volatile landscape of autonomous regions in the People's Republic of China today. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sakura Christmas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226846253\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226846255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Sakura Christmas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48520093565183,"sku":"9780226846255","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a25461eb-8112-42a2-b653-2ec31b91cddd.jpg?v=1778740705","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/territorial-natures-sakura-christmas-9780226846255","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}