Are Manchuria classifield as Single Provinces

I have a Question ,are Manchuria classifield as a single provinces or states during Qing Dynasty and  during ROC era  or classifield as 3 provinces like today Liaoling ,Jilin and Helongjiang ?

Are Primosky Krai ,Kbabarosk Krai ,Jewish oblast in Today Russia also under classifield as Manchuria or classifield As Liaoning ,Jilin and Helongjiang provinces during Qing and ROC rea?

Thanks.

In the Qing era Manchuria was originally governed separately from the rest of China. Later on it was divided into three provinces (Heilongjiang, Jilin/Kirin, Fengtian/Liaoning) with borders similar to the current PRC borders. This 3-province division continues until the Japanese invasion (didn't matter much anyway since the region was effectively under warlord rule from 1916 - 1931). When the Japanese created Manchukuo it was divided into five, then 19 provinces. (wiki link). During RoC era (post-1945) Manchuria was divided into 8 provinces (9 if you count Hsingan which is nowadays part of Inner Mongolia).

As for the Amur and Ussuri regions, used to be divided between Heilongjiang and Jilin.






Edited by Voskhod - 11-Dec-2008 at 10:56

Originally posted by Sarmat I don't think the Chinese division of the inner Manchuria into 3 provinces existed before the 19th century when the Chinese migration was allowed there.