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The Hulunbuir Situation Viewed from the Political Aspect: Working Document, Manchurian Railway Harbin Office, 1938

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The Hulunbuir Situation Viewed from the Political Aspect — Working Document, 1938

A rare internal working document of 1938 examining the situation in Hulunbuir — the great grassland and border region of northwestern Manchuria — from a political standpoint. 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.

Hulunbuir, 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. As a working reference paper, this document offers a primary, period view of how the area's political circumstances were assessed from within the administrative machinery of the time — the kind of internal source that anchors historical study in the operational record rather than in retrospective narrative.

A specific and uncommon primary document for historians of modern Chinese and Northeast Asian history and of the Manchurian frontier.

Offered by KT Vintage, drawing on decades of trusted international sales to discerning collectors and institutions across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania.

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The Hulunbuir Situation Viewed from the Political Aspect — Working Document, 1938

A rare internal working document of 1938 examining the situation in Hulunbuir — the great grassland and border region of northwestern Manchuria — from a political standpoint. 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.

Hulunbuir, 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. As a working reference paper, this document offers a primary, period view of how the area's political circumstances were assessed from within the administrative machinery of the time — the kind of internal source that anchors historical study in the operational record rather than in retrospective narrative.

A specific and uncommon primary document for historians of modern Chinese and Northeast Asian history and of the Manchurian frontier.

Offered by KT Vintage, drawing on decades of trusted international sales to discerning collectors and institutions across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania.

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