To the Harbin Station
Subtitle: the liberal alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914
By: David Wolff.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Russians -- China -- Harbin; Harbin (China) -- History; China -- History -- 20th century
Other titles: Liberal alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914
Description: In 1898, near the projected intersection of the Chinese Eastern Railroad (the last leg of the Trans-Siberian) and China's Sungari River, Russian engineers founded the city of Harbin. Between the survey of the site and the profound dislocations of the 1917 revolution, Harbin grew into a bustling multiethnic urban center with over 100,000 inhabitants.

In this area of great natural wealth, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and American ambitions competed and converged, and sometimes precipitated vicious hostilities. Drawing on the archives, both central and local, of seven countries, this history of Harbin presents multiple perspectives on Imperial Russia's only colony.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-249) and index.