Harbin

Guest: Mark Gamsa is a professor in the History Department of East Asian Studies at Tel-Aviv University. He researches European-Asian contact, specifically Russian-Chinese relations and modern Russian and Chinese history and literature. He’s the author of Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography published by University of Toronto Press. This episode was written, edited and produced by Sean Guillory and Rusana Novikova. Music: Konstantin Sokol’skii, “Kogda druz’ya vstrechaiutsia.” Nikolai Dontsov, “Liubov razboinika.” Nikolai Markov, “Tango zhuravli.” Harbin: a major Russian city in China