On the value systems of the Russian Émigrés in China

Mark Gamsa

On the value systems of the Russian Émigrés in China

Mark Gamsa^*

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Department of East Asian Studies

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Abstract

This article offers a close reading of literary fiction by three representatives of the Russian emigration in China in the 1930s and 1940s. Short stories by Mikhail Shcherbakov (1890-1956), Al'fred Kheidok (1892-1990) and Boris Iul'skii (1912-50?), which have been collected and published in new editions in Russia in 2011, are used as a window into the mental world of the writers and readers of Russian literature in Harbin and Shanghai. The purpose of the enquiry is therefore to deduce from these texts how their authors viewed the non-Russian people (mostly Chinese and Japanese) that surrounded them and how they both perceived the expectations and reflected the values of their émigré reading audience.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	161-176
Number of pages	16
Journal	Archiv Orientalni
Volume	86
Issue number	1
State	Published - 2018

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Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange	RG002-P-08

Keywords

Manchuria
Russian emigration in China Émigré literature
Russians in Harbin
Russians in Shanghai

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