In the 1920s, Westerners viewed Harbin, in North Manchuria, as aworld turned upside down. Located in a former Chinese Eastern Railwayconcession with a significant Russian population, the city and theSpecial District in which it resided were represented as places thathad reversed the "natural" racial hierarchy - a placewhere white was the ruled and not the ruler. Administering the Colonizer explores how a non-Westernculture dealt with the Western minority under its administration. Itreveals that contrary to observations and ...
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In the 1920s, Westerners viewed Harbin, in North Manchuria, as aworld turned upside down. Located in a former Chinese Eastern Railwayconcession with a significant Russian population, the city and theSpecial District in which it resided were represented as places thathad reversed the "natural" racial hierarchy - a placewhere white was the ruled and not the ruler. Administering the Colonizer explores how a non-Westernculture dealt with the Western minority under its administration. Itreveals that contrary to observations and ideological and nationalhistories emanating from Moscow and present-day Beijing, republicanChina created policies in a number of areas that not only promoted itsown sovereignty but also protected the Russian minority. A historical examination of how an ethnic, cultural, and racialmajority coexisted with a minority of a different culture and race, hisbook also restores to history the multiple national influences thathave shaped northern China and Chinese nationalism.
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