Struggle for the Soul of a City; Nationalism, Imperialism, and Racial Tension in 1920s Harbin  

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Carter, James

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Modern China vol. 27 no. 1 (Jan. 2001), page 91-116.
Topik: Nationalism; Imperialism; and Racial Tension in 1920s Harbin
Fulltext: 91MC271.pdf (96.3KB)

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As Howard Lee Haag was completing his studies at the University of Michigan in early 1921, hewas also preparing to go abroad to work for the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA). When his instructions arrived from the YMCA, he found that he and his wife were being assigned for the next fourteen years to a city in Manchuria. Haag had never heard of the place. He wrote his parents with the news: “Florence and I are assigned to . . . work for the YMCA in Harbin, Manchuria. Now perhaps you will have to scratch your head to find out where it is! . . . You see, it is a Chinese town in which there are 55,000 Russian people” (Haag, 27 March 1921). Some months after his arrival, Haag reversed this statement in a letter to friends at home, observing, “We are on Chinese soil, but in a Russian city” (Haag, 14 January 1922).

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