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Creating a Chinese Harbin : Nationalism in an International City, 1916-1932 / James Carter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) : 2 maps, 15 halftonesContent type:
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  • 9780801439667
  • 9781501722493
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Paris of the East? -- 2. "Harbin's Great Wall" -- 3. Community and Sovereignty, 1918-1920 -- 4. The "Sleeping Lion" Awakes -- 5. "A Chinese Place" -- 6. Nationalism Undone -- Epilogue: Whose Nationalism? -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Paris of the East? -- 2. "Harbin's Great Wall" -- 3. Community and Sovereignty, 1918-1920 -- 4. The "Sleeping Lion" Awakes -- 5. "A Chinese Place" -- 6. Nationalism Undone -- Epilogue: Whose Nationalism? -- Select Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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