Cathcart, Moll-Murata, Winstanley-Chesters, (Colonial Academics and Japan’s Inner Asia Ambitions: Keijo Imperial University and Studies of Mengjiang or Inner Mongolia)

Abstract
This paper illustrates the role of Seoul-based researchers within Japan’s efforts to expand fieldwork and scholarship into central Inner Mongolia, and the creation of the puppet state of Mengjiang (Mōkyō) in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Academics based at Keijō Imperial University (the antecedent institution to Seoul National University) made efforts to document economic and geographi...