Entangled Histories

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Entangled Histories: The Transcultural Past of Northeast China

   • Dan Ben-Canaan, Frank Grüner, Ines Prodöhl

   Pages 1-11

3. Transgressing Cultural and National Borders

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. “Vasily” of China and his Russian Friends: Smugglers and their Transcultural Identities

      • Sören Urbansky

      Pages 15-33

   3. Intercultural Speakers in Harbin: The Sociolinguistic Profile of Chinese Pidgin Russian

      • Xin Yuan

      Pages 35-45

   4. Mixed Marriages in Russian-Chinese Manchuria

      • Mark Gamsa

      Pages 47-58

   5. The Globalisation of Death: Foreign Cemeteries in a Transnational Perspective

      • Madeleine Herren

      Pages 59-79

4. Constructing Identities: The Harbin Example

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Russian Émigrés in Harbin’s Multinational Past: Censuses and Identity

      • Olga Bakich

      Pages 83-99

   3. The Yuandongbao 遠東報: A Chinese or a Russian Newspaper?

      • Rudolph Ng

      Pages 101-118

   4. “Kharbinger” of Trouble. Anti-German Protest and Power Relations in a Manchurian City 1933

      • Susanne Hohler

      Pages 119-131

   5. Russian Fascism in Harbin and Manchuria

      • Heinz-Dietrich Löwe

      Pages 133-158

5. Soft Power and Imperialism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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   2. Late-Qing Adaptive Frontier Administrative Reform in Manchuria, 1900–1911

      • Blaine Chiasson

      Pages 161-175

   3. Surveying Manchuria: Imperial Russia’s Topographers at Work

      • Victor Zatsepine

      Pages 177-188

   4. The Ambivalent Enterprise: Medical Activities of the Red Cross Society of Japan in the Northeastern Region of China during the Russo-Japanese War

      • Yoshiya Makita

      Pages 189-203

   5. Projecting a Fiction of the Nation State to the World: The Manzhouguo News Agency in Japanese-Occupied Northeast China, 1932–1945

      • Tomoko Akami

      Pages 205-234

6. Back Matter

   Pages 235-238

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The authors of this book focus on transcultural entanglements in Manchuria during the first half of the twentieth century. Manchuria, as Western historiography commonly designates the three northeastern provinces of China, was a politically, culturally and economically contested region. In the late nineteenth century, the region became the centre of competing Russian, Chinese and Japanese interests, thereby also attracting global attention. The coexistence of people with different nationalities, ethnicities and cultures in Manchuria was rarely if ever harmoniously balanced or static. On the contrary, interactions were both dynamic and complex. Semi-colonial experiences affected the people’s living conditions, status and power relations. The transcultural negotiations between all population groups across borders of all kinds are the subject of this book. The chapters of this volume shed light on various entangled histories in areas such as administration, the economy, ideas, ideologies, culture, media and daily life.

• China Modern History
• Harbin Cultural Mix
• History Cultural China
• Japan Manchuria
• Manchuria History
• Russia Manchuria
• Transnational Conflicts Manchuria

• School of Western Studies, Heilongjiang University, Harbin

  Dan Ben-Canaan

• Karl Jaspers Centre, Cluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", Heidelberg, Germany

  Frank Grüner

• German Historical Institute, Washington, USA

  Ines Prodöhl

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