Lexington Books
Pages: 480
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-66691-690-4 • Hardback • February 2024 • $145.00 • (£112.00)
978-1-66691-691-1 • eBook • March 2024 • $60.00 • (£46.00)
Dan Ben-Canaan is professor emeritus of research and academic writing methodologies at Heilongjiang University School of Western Studies and Northeast Forestry University School of Postgraduate Studies and founder of the Sino-Israel Research and Study Center in Harbin.
Part One - Genesis
Preface
Chapter 1. Space and Time
Part Two – Little Big Boxes
Chapter 2. Streets
Chapter 3. Buildings
Chapter 4. The Harbin Censuses: Population – Employment – Politics and Manipulation
Part Three - Journeys
Chapter 5. Chronology of Jewish Life in Harbin 1898-1985
Chapter 6. Jewish Culture in Harbin
Chapter 7. The Synagogues
Chapter 8. Music, Theatre, Arts, Literature, and Films
Chapter 9. A Quest for a Peaceful Resting Place
Chapter 10. Harbin’s Underworld
Chapter 11. Neighbors
While much international attention has been focused in recent years on China’s northwest (Xinjiang and the Uyghurs), the study of modern northeast China, which was a considerably more important historical and strategic arena, has been somewhat marginalized. Focusing on Harbin, this volume provides a vertical and horizontal analysis of northeast China since the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, within the context of contemporary international events, while covering the lives and interrelations of the regional ethnic and religious communities, underlying the role of Jews, in comprehensive, virtually encyclopedic, details never discussed before, let alone in one volume. As such, it is an outstanding lifelong achievement.
— Yitzhak Shichor, professor emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem