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DESCRIPTION: \n\nEast Asian Studies Speaker Series Talk - 'Fascist Sheep: L
 and and Livestock in Inner Mongolia under Japanese Rule'\n	Professor Sakura
  Christmas\, Bowdoin College\n	Tuesday February 24\, 4:00 PM | 680 Sherbroo
 ke Room 1041\n	Co-sponsored by the Centre for Global Chinese Studies\n\nAbs
 tract:\n\nIn the early twentieth century\, the steppe borderlands between 
 China and Mongolia erupted in violence. This contentious overlap between H
 an and Mongol communities posed fundamental problems in governance for imp
 erial Japan as it expanded into the region. In response\, Japanese militar
 ists and Mongol leaders converged on a radical solution in 1932: Demarcati
 ng an autonomous territory for minority peoples in Manchukuo fifteen years
  before such zones would exist in the People’s Republic of China. In this 
 talk\, Sakura Christmas explores the fraught delineation of this autonomou
 s territory as not only ethnic\, but also environmental in kind. In the 19
 30s\, Japanese authorities relocated indigenous inhabitants and cultivated
  a pastoral ecology in Kingġan Province to reinforce corresponding identit
 ies. They viewed seasonal migration and native livestock as obstacles to e
 conomic autarky under fascist imperialism. Under the banner of 'improvemen
 t\,' they introduced engineered breeds to settle Mongol herders and maximi
 ze output\, which led to land degradation under the conditions of total wa
 r. The disastrous consequences call into question the underlying purpose o
 f 'improvement' heralded by agricultural science.\n
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LOCATION:1041\, Sherbrooke 680\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2M7\, 680 rue She
 rbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Fascist Sheep: Land and Livestock in Inner Mongolia under Japanese 
 Rule
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