Title: Tudi as an Analytical Category: Land Policy, Agricultural Experiment, and Archeological Search in Tewntieth-Century Manchuria
Presenter: Luming Xu, PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Time: February 20, 2026, 4:00-5:30 pm
Place: International and Area Studies Library Room 309
Abstract: This project captures the historical and historiographical transformations of Manchuria from the “cradle of conflicts” in the 1900s to the uncontested “Northeast China” in today, and asks the following question: How was this historical and ideological transformation achieved? I propose to use “land” as an analytical category to refract existing scholarship on the topics of borderland history, migration studies, and nationalist/imperialist social and historical imagination by focusing on the critical period of these transformations from 1905 to 1948.
