Research Project – Manchuria: Empires, Borderland, and the “State of Exception”
Presenter: Luming Xu, PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Time: February 21, 2025, 4:30-6:30 pm
Place: Gregory Hall 415
Introduction:
In this lecture, Luming Xu gave a brief introduction of the modern history of Manchuria, as both a borderland of China and of the Japanese empire in the early twentieth century. He focused on his current project on the land policy of Manchuria throughout the late Qing, Republican, and the Manchukuo periods. In this study, he treated borderland in a permanent status of “state of exception”, and it is this “state of exception” that defines the identity and practices of modern states and nations.
