Luming Xu

Born and raised in China's Northeast, I am interested in the history of my homeland and the coming into being of this region, both politically and intellectually. In history, the place of China's Northeast, also known as Manchuria, was both the center of the Qing empire's homeland and the important borderland of modern China. My dissertation project focuses on the historical transformation from "Manchuria" to "China's Northeast" through the lenses of migration, agricultural cultivation, and archeological and historiographical research in the early twentieth century.