Entangled Histories: The Transcultural Past of Northeast China (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783319020471)

Introduction: Entangled Histories: The transcultural past of Northeast China.- I Transgressing Cultural and National Borders.- 'Vasily' of China and his Russian friends. Smugglers and their transcultural identities.- Intercultural speakers in Harbin: The Sociolinguistic Profile of Chinese Pidgin Russian.- Mixed Marriages in Russian-Chinese Manchuria.- Globalization of Death - Foreign Cemeteries in a Transnational Perspective.- II Constructing Identities: The Harbin Example.- Russian ﾉmigr駸 in Harbin's Multinational Past: Censuses and Identity.- Yuandongbao: A Chinese or Russian Newspaper?.- 'Kharbinger' of Trouble. Anti-German Protest and Power Relations in a Manchurian City 1933.- Russian Fascism in Harbin and Manchuria.- III Soft Power and Imperialism.- Late-Qing Adaptive Frontier Administrative Reform in Manchuria, 1900-1911.- Surveying Manchuria: Imperial Russia's topographers at work.- The Ambivalent Enterprise: Medical Activities of the Red Cross Society of Japan in the Northeastern Region of China during the Russo-Japanese War.- Projecting a Fiction of the Nation-state to the World: the Manzhouguo News Agency in Japanese-occupied Northeast China, 1932-45.