Emigrantskie vpechatleniia o Kitae [Russian émigré impressions about China]

Abstract

This book publishes short biographies of the authors, and also introduces the forewords from their writings. Table of contents: Diplomat Ivan Korostovets: «Russia in the Far East» and «Pages from the history of Russian diplomacy»; Orientalist Pavel Shkurkin and his popular publications; The writer Nikolay Baikov: Memoirs in literary works; Orientalist Ivan Serebrennikov: «My memories»; Journalist Lev Arnol’dov "China, as it is", "From the country of the White Sun" ; Journalist Anany Gorbunov: «From a broker to ... a reporter»; Journalist Vsevolod (Nikanorovich) Ivanov: Russian youth in Shanghai; Traveler Boris Morozov: through Mongolia to China; Businessman Yuri Yankovsky: Half a century of hunting for tigers, or Memories of a daughter; Clerk Peter Lapiken and his «Four Cities»; Abbess Ariadna and her thoughts about Orthodoxy in China; Vladimir Zhiganov: "Album Russians in Shanghai," , "Japan after two years of war with China", "In defense of the Motherland", and «The Confession of a White Emigrant».