Hi calkins,

Haha, it seems that you've uploaded a "politically highly risky map" here. Do you know why? Anyway, this map is very precious and significant historically, especially for me, a Japanese. Thanks.

** Gasp **  changye, I am clueless to what this map is...I just saw the hanzi and assumed it was an old map of a city in China.

Please enlighten!

I just translated the hanzi to 奉天 Fèngtiān....from MDBG:

"old name for Shenyang 瀋陽｜沈阳 in modern Liaoning province"

Found this wiki on the Fengtian Clique.  This is interesting to me because I've never read about them and their fight for Beijing...I've only read about the KMT.

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On closer inspection, I see some Japanese kanji in the upper-left box.  I'm still clueless!

Hi calkins,

Please read the following Wiki articles. You’ll soon know why there are some Japanese place names in this “politically provocative” map. It’s also interesting to see names such as “满铁奉天医院” and “满铁医科大学” in it. I wonder where you found this map.

沈阳 (奉天)  Shenyang (Fengtian)
http://aproxie.info/index.php?hl=f5&q=uggc%3A%2F%2Fra.jvxvcrqvn.bet%2Fjvxv%2FFuralnat

满洲国 Manchukuo
http://www.aproxie.info/index.php?hl=f5&q=uggc%3A%2F%2Fra.jvxvcrqvn.bet%2Fjvxv%2FZnapuhxhb

南满洲铁道 South Manchuria Railway
http://aproxie.info/index.php?hl=f5&q=uggc%3A%2F%2Fra.jvxvcrqvn.bet%2Fjvxv%2FFbhgu_Znapuhevn_Envyjnl

You can also see in the map that the old city of 沈阳 (奉天) is circumvallated. In the past, most of Chinese cities had such castellated walls to protect against enemies, just like old European cities. And that is the reason why a city is called “城 or 城市” (castle wall city) in Chinese.

changye, thanks for these informative links.  This is a good example of why I think that the teaching of World History, in the States, is very poor.  I had no prior knowledge to this, as is typical with most Asian history taught here.