Top Highlights

• Gossip says that, like the railroad, Red Flag Road will be upgraded, too. Locals wonder if it’s their way of life that will be made obsolete.
• Historically, the West referred to the Northeast as Manchuria,
• more Manchu lived south of the Great Wall than in their former homeland, and culturally they had all but assimilated with the Han Chinese they once ruled.
• Most new arrivals didn’t call the land Manchuria,
• They called their new home what it looked like: the Great Northern Wasteland.