Creating a Chinese Harbin

by James Hugh Carter and James Carter

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801439663
• ISBN13: 9780801439667
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher