Harbin - A Cross-Cultural Biography

Told alongside the life of a unique city resident, Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography is the history of Russian-Chinese relations in the Manchurian city of Harbin.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Of Ethnicity and Identity
2. Beginnings
3. Intermediaries and Channels of Communication
4. A Chinese-German Flower
5. Daily Life in a Mixed City
6. Trials and Endings
7. Russians and Chinese under Japanese Rule
8. Kharbintsy and Ha’erbin ren
Epilogue: The General and the Particular
Notes
Glossary of Chinese Terms
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Mark Gamsa is an associate professor in the School of History at Tel Aviv University.

Summary

Told alongside the life of a unique city resident, Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography is the history of Russian-Chinese relations in the Manchurian city of Harbin.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Gamsa
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781487506285
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0628-5
• No. of pages: 394
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous