To the Harbin Station: The Liberal Alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914

by David Wolff and Nicholas V. Riasanovsky

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804732663
• ISBN13: 9780804732666
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"