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DESCRIPTION:Research Talk: 'Fascist Sheep: Land and Livestock in Inner Mong
 olia under Japanese Rule'\n\nProfessor Sakura Christmas\, Bowdoin College
 \n	Wednesday\, April 8 at 4:00 PM EST\, \n	680 Sherbrooke Room 1041\, Montré
 al\, QC H3A 2M7\, Canada\n\nHosted by the Department of East Asian Studies
 \, as part of their EAS Speaker Series\n\nAbstract:\n\nIn the early twenti
 eth century\, the steppe borderlands between China and Mongolia erupted in
  violence. This contentious overlap between Han and Mongol communities pos
 ed fundamental problems in governance for imperial Japan as it expanded in
 to the region. In response\, Japanese militarists and Mongol leaders conve
 rged on a radical solution in 1932: Demarcating an autonomous territory fo
 r minority peoples in Manchukuo fifteen years before such zones would exis
 t in the People’s Republic of China. In this talk\, Sakura Christmas explo
 res the fraught delineation of this autonomous territory as not only ethni
 c\, but also environmental in kind. In the 1930s\, Japanese authorities re
 located indigenous inhabitants and cultivated a pastoral ecology in Kingġa
 n Province to reinforce corresponding identities. They viewed seasonal mig
 ration and native livestock as obstacles to economic autarky under fascist
  imperialism. Under the banner of 'improvement\,' they introduced engineer
 ed breeds to settle Mongol herders and maximize output\, which led to land
  degradation under the conditions of total war. The disastrous consequence
 s call into question the underlying purpose of 'improvement' heralded by a
 gricultural science.\n
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LOCATION:EDUC 120\, Education Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1Y2\, 370
 0\, rue McTavish
SUMMARY:Research Talk: Fascist Sheep: Land and Livestock in Inner Mongolia 
 under Japanese Rule
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