Drawing on historiography of the Japanese occupation in the Chinese, Japanese, and English languages, this book examines the politics of the Manchukuo puppet state from the angle of notable Chinese who cooperated with the Japanese military and headed its government institutions.

Jianda Yuan is a visiting research scholar at the National Institute of Japanese Literature. His research interests pertain to modern China and Japan, with a particular emphasis on Manchuria in the 1930s and the 1940s. His recent work is "The Manchukuo Young Girl Envoys and Their Visit to Japan" (2022).