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Book Creating a Chinese Harbin

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  • Author : James H. Carter
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2019-06-30
  • ISBN : 1501722492
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Creating a Chinese Harbin written by James H. Carter and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James H. Carter outlines the birth of Chinese nationalism in an unlikely setting: the international city of Harbin. Planned and built by Russian railway engineers, the city rose quickly from the Manchurian plain, changing from a small fishing village to a modern city in less than a generation. Russian, Chinese, Korean, Polish, Jewish, French, and British residents filled this multiethnic city on the Sungari River. The Chinese took over Harbin after the October Revolution and ruled it from 1918 until the Japanese founded the puppet state of Manchukuo in 1932. In his account of the radical changes that this unique city experienced over a brief span of time, Carter examines the majority Chinese population and its developing Chinese identity in an urban area of fifty languages. Originally, Carter argues, its nascent nationalism defined itself against the foreign presence in the city—while using foreign resources to modernize the area. Early versions of Chinese nationalism embraced both nation and state. By the late 1920s, the two strands had separated to such an extent that Chinese police fired on Chinese student protesters. This division eased the way for Japanese occupation: the Chinese state structure proved a fruitful source of administrative collaboration for the area's new rulers in the 1930s.

Book The Making of a Chinese City

Download or read book The Making of a Chinese City written by Soren Clausen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Harbin, ruled by the Russians, by an international coalition of allied powers, by Chinese warlords, by the Soviet Union and finally by the Chinese Communists - all in the course of 100 years - is presented here as an example of Chinese local-history writing.

Book Harbin

Download or read book Harbin written by Mark Gamsa and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book To the Harbin Station

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 1999-05
  • ISBN : 9780804764056
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book To the Harbin Station written by and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1898, near the projected intersection of the Chinese Eastern Railroad (the last leg of the Trans-Siberian) and China's Sungari River, Russian engineers founded the city of Harbin. Between the survey of the site and the profound dislocations of the 1917 revolution, Harbin grew into a bustling multiethnic urban center with over 100,000 inhabitants. In this area of great natural wealth, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and American ambitions competed and converged, and sometimes precipitated vicious hostilities. Drawing on the archives, both central and local, of seven countries, this history of Harbin presents multiple perspectives on Imperial Russia's only colony. The Russian authorities at Harbin and their superiors in St. Petersburg intentionally created an urban environment that was tolerant not only toward their Chinese host, but also toward different kinds of "Russians." For example, in no other city of the Russian Empire were Jews and Poles, who were numerous in Harbin, encouraged to participate in municipal government. The book reveals how this liberal Russian policy changed the face and fate of Harbin. As the history of Harbin unfolds, the narrative covers a wide range of historiographic concerns from several national histories. These include: the role of the Russian finance minister Witte, the building of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the origins of Stolypin's reforms, the development of Siberia and the Russian Far East, the 1905 Revolution, the use of ethnicity as a tool of empire, civil-military conflict, strategic area studies, Chinese nationalism, the Japanese decision for war against the Russians, Korean nationalism in exile, and the rise of the soybean as an international commodity. In all these concerns, Harbin was a vibrant source of creative, unorthodox policy and turbulent economic and political claims.

Book Harbin and Manchuria

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  • Author : Thomas Lahusen
  • Publisher : South Atlantic Quarterly
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Harbin and Manchuria written by Thomas Lahusen and published by South Atlantic Quarterly. This book was released on 2001 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly focuses on the layered cultures of the northeast China city of Harbin and the region formerly known as Manchuria. During the first half of the twentieth-century, Harbin--a by-product of the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway at the turn of the century--and the rest of Manchuria became the site of conflicting and competing Russian, Western, Japanese, and Chinese colonialisms. Home to émigrés from the famine-ridden Shandong province, impoverished Japanese settlers, Jews fleeing the pogroms of Russia, White Russians escaping the civil war, and Koreans caught between Japanese expansionism and Chinese nationalism, Harbin was a colonial place like no other, one that eventually comprised more than fifty nationalities speaking forty-five languages. Crossing the boundaries of their specializations, contributors respond to the complexity of this history while considering the concrete concept of place and its relation to the more abstract idea of space. A rare encounter between scholars of East Asian and Slavic studies, this well-illustrated collections includes discussions of history, politics, economics, anthropology, sociology, cinema, and cultural studies. An eclectic and comprehensive exploration of memory and its reconstruction in the Harbin-Manchuria diaspora, Harbin and Manchuria provides the first full treatment of this colonial encounter. Contributors. Olga Bakich, Sabine Breuillard, James Carter, Elena Chernolutskaya, Prasenjit Duara, Thomas Lahusen, Hyun-Ok Park, Andre Schmid, Mariko Asano Tamanoi, David Wolff

Book Market Street

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  • Author : Xiao Hong
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2015-01-01
  • ISBN : 0295805668
  • Pages : 155 pages

Download or read book Market Street written by Xiao Hong and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in print - Market Street

Book Harbin

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  • Author : Mark Gamsa
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2020-11-03
  • ISBN : 1487533764
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book Harbin written by Mark Gamsa and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an intimate portrait of early twentieth-century Harbin, a city in Manchuria where Russian colonialists, and later refugees from the Revolution, met with Chinese migrants. The deep social and intellectual fissures between the Russian and Chinese worlds were matched by a multitude of small efforts to cross the divide as the city underwent a wide range of social and political changes. Using surviving letters, archival photographs, and rare publications, this book also tells the personal story of a forgotten city resident, Baron Roger Budberg, a physician who, being neither Russian nor Chinese, nevertheless stood at the very centre of the cross-cultural divide in Harbin. The biography of an important city, fleshing out its place in the global history of East-West contacts and twentieth-century diasporas, this book is also the history of an individual life and an original experiment in historical writing.

Book Vacation Goose Travel Guide Harbin China

Download or read book Vacation Goose Travel Guide Harbin China written by Francis Morgan and published by Soffer Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vacation Goose Travel Guide Harbin China is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Top 50 city attractions, top 3 nightlife adventures, top 50 city restaurants, top 50 shopping centers, top 50 hotels, and more than a dozen monthly weather statistics. This travel guide is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this pocket book be part of yet another fun Harbin adventure :)

Book Harbin to Hanoi

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Victoir
  • Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
  • Release : 2013-01-01
  • ISBN : 9888139428
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Harbin to Hanoi written by Laura Victoir and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial powers in China and northern Vietnam employed the built environment for many purposes: as an expression of imperial aspirations, a manifestation of supremacy, a mission to civilize, a re-creation of a home away from home, or simply as a place to live and work. In this volume, scholars of city planning, architecture, and Asian and imperial history provide a detailed analysis of how colonization worked on different levels, and how it was expressed in stone, iron, and concrete. The process of creating the colonial built environment was multilayered and unpredictable. This book uncovers the regional diversity of the colonial built form found from Harbin to Hanoi, varied experiences of the foreign powers in Asia, flexible interactions between the colonizers and the colonized, and the risks entailed in building and living in these colonies and treaty ports.

Book Secrets and Spies

Download or read book Secrets and Spies written by Mara Moustafine and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From secret police files retrieved from the archives in post-Soviet Russia to the horror of Stalin's purges, Secrets and Spies unravels the complex historical forces which shaped a family's destiny. Harbin in north China was once the heart of a vibrant Russian community of diverse cultural and political origins. But by the mid-1930s, the Japanese occupation of Manchuria drove many Russians to seek refuge elsewhere. For the thousands who returned to their motherland in the Soviet Union, it was a bitter homecoming. At the height of Stalin's purges, they were arrested as Japanese spies. Some were shot, others sent to labour camp, few survived. Among them were members of the author's family. Driven by curiosity and armed with chutzpah, Mara Moustafine fronted up at the headquarters of the former KGB in post-Soviet Moscow and asked for help to discover what had happened. She got more than she bargained for. The family's secret police files, retrieved from archives at opposite ends of Russia, revealed the horror of the purges as well as startling secrets about their lives in turbulent years in China and the Soviet Union. What was fact? What was fiction? Written with sensitivity and humour, Secrets and Spies skilfully weaves personal and political, past and present to give an insider's perspective on the life of ordinary people in extraordinary times.

Book Harbin  China

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  • Author : Abteilung fur offentlichkeitsarbeit des nationalen touristikamts der vr China
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Harbin China written by Abteilung fur offentlichkeitsarbeit des nationalen touristikamts der vr China and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With information on sights to see, specialities, climate, commerce, hotels etc.

Book City Maps Harbin China

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  • Author : James mcFee
  • Publisher : Soffer Publishing
  • Release : 2017-03-27
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book City Maps Harbin China written by James mcFee and published by Soffer Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City Maps Harbin China is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Attractions, pubs, bars, restaurants, museums, convenience stores, clothing stores, shopping centers, marketplaces, police, emergency facilities are only some of the places you will find in this map. This collection of maps is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this map be part of yet another fun Harbin adventure :)

Book Harbin 2012

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  • Author : Harbin 2012 Youth Olympic Games Bid Committee
  • Publisher : ICON Group International
  • Release : 2008*
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Harbin 2012 written by Harbin 2012 Youth Olympic Games Bid Committee and published by ICON Group International. This book was released on 2008* with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Jews of Harbin Live on in My Heart

Download or read book The Jews of Harbin Live on in My Heart written by Theodore Kaufman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Travel Like a Local   Map of Harbin

Download or read book Travel Like a Local Map of Harbin written by Maxwell Fox and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get Ready For The Adventure Of A Lifetime! Are you planning your next vacation abroad and you're ready to explore? Do you want to be prepared for everything? Are you ready to experience every new place you visit just like a local? Well, with this amazing Harbin (China) travel map you're all set and ready to go! The Harbin (China) map was carefully designed to give you amazing results and make traveling easier than ever. We make sure to constantly update our info to give you the most relevant and accurate information, so you will never get confused or frustrated during your Harbin (China) trip. The map is very detailed and it will not only give you all the available roads and routes, but also the essential information to make your Harbin (China) vacation unforgettable. In the map you can see all the available means of transport, bus stops and routes so you can always know how to get everywhere. And because we know that a vacation is not only about the roads and busses, the map gives you many options for eating, drinking and having a good time! We carefully marked all the restaurants, bars and pubs so you can always find one that is nearby. In the Harbin (China) map you will also find the best places to go shopping, the most famous and must-see sights, churches and more. And if an emergency comes up, there are markings of police stations and hospitals everywhere for your convenience. Each kind of marking has a different color so you can easily navigate around the map and find exactly what you're looking for within seconds. The city is also organized in sections so you can better find your way around. So what are you waiting for? Pack your bags, get your map and let's get started! Just Click "Add To Cart Now"

Book To the Harbin Station

Download or read book To the Harbin Station written by David Wolff and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mitya s Harbin

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  • Author : Lenore Lamont Zissermann
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 536 pages

Download or read book Mitya s Harbin written by Lenore Lamont Zissermann and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: