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| Dairen: 1936 |
| The original text from the 1936 SMR tourist handbook for the city of Dairen, now known as Dalian. This historic document details the colonial situation of the famous Chinese port while it was a Japanese territory. The South Manchurian Railway Company, formerly the largest economic enterprise in Manchuria and the main agency of Japan's penetration into China, was organized shortly after the Russo-Japanese War. It undertook construction of towns, harbors, mining, utilities and trade. When a competing Chinese railway network threatened their monopoly, the Japanese Kwantung army staged the Manchurian Incident and set up the state of Manchukuo. At the end of World War II, China expropriated the company's vast property. |
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