On the Encounter between Chinese, Russians, and Rossiiane in Harbin before and after 1920
Laurie Manchester
Forum Ab Imperio: Mark Gamsa, Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021).
SUMMARY:
This is a contribution to a review forum dedicated to Mark Gamsa’s book Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography (University of Toronto Press, 2021). Along with other forum participants, Laurie Manchester comments on various aspects of this double biography of the city and one of its inhabitants: Roger von Budberg, a Russian medical doctor of Baltic German descent, who embraced much of Chinese culture or at least the Chinese way of life.