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Compiled within the Harbin office of the South Manchuria Railway and issued as a reference paper of the regional general administration, the document was prepared for official use rather than public circulation, and survives in correspondingly small numbers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHulunbuir, with its frontier geography and complex political character, was a region of particular strategic attention in the late 1930s, and contemporary analyses of it are scarce. 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The volume leads the traveller down the Ryojun (Lushun) line, the Kinjo branch, the Yingkou and Fushun branches, the Anho and Hozan lines, onward from Shinkyo (Changchun) to Jilin, and along the Keihin line — a sequential portrait of the Northeast as it was presented to the visitor on the eve of the 1940s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe guide opens with a suite of frontispiece photographs and closes with a folding general map of Manchukuo, while interleaved throughout are runs of commercial and industrial advertisements arranged by rail line — a rich incidental record of the cities, services, and businesses strung along the network. 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Handed out at a council convened at the Nagano Prefectural Library, the documents retain their original outer wrapper and gather the working papers placed before the participants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSettlement-colonisation ephemera of this kind — council hand-outs prepared for a specific gathering and never formally published — survive only rarely, and rarely as a complete set within its wrapper. As a primary source the materials speak directly to the planning, organisation, and promotion of agrarian emigration to Manchuria, documenting one of the defining social undertakings of the period from the inside. 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Directories of this kind assembled the names, positions, and particulars of the administrators, businessmen, and public figures of Manchukuo — a contemporary roll of the people who staffed and shaped the Northeast at the close of the 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBiographical registers are among the most useful of primary sources for the social and institutional history of a place and period, mapping the networks of office and enterprise as they stood at a fixed moment. 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