Entangled Histories [electronic resource] : The Transcultural Past of Northeast China / edited by Dan Ben-Canaan, Frank Grüner, Ines Prodöhl.

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 Émigrés 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.