Harbin
A Cross-Cultural Biography
Seiten
2021
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4424-9 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4424-9 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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.
Mark Gamsa is an associate professor in the School of History at Tel Aviv University.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.08.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 22 b&w illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 520 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-4424-3 / 1487544243 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-4424-9 / 9781487544249 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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