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Russian City, Chinese Frontier: Harbin and the Making of Colonial and National Space in the Time of Decolonization, 1917-1920s Speaker: Chia Yin Hsu Time: 4:30 P.M., Thursday, March 29, 2007 Location: Duke University, 240 John Hope Franklin Center (2204 Erwin Road), Durham Sponsored by: The Franklin Humanities Institute and partners
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Chia Yin Hsu received her Ph.D. in history from New York University in 2006. Her dissertation, "The Chinese Eastern Railroad and the Making of Russian Imperial Orders in the Far East," investigates the rethinking of social and spatial ordering that accompanied the Russian Empire's expansion into the Far East at the turn of the twentieth century. In particular, the dissertation examines how the introduction of the railroad as a technology of imperial expansion helped to shape the Chinese territory of Manchuria into a Russian colonial space, and to racialize conceptions of disease during the 1910 plague epidemic in Manchuria. Her article, "A Tale of Two Railroads: 'Yellow Labor,' Agrarian Colonization, and the Making of Russianness at the Far Eastern Frontier, 1890s-1910," appears in Ab Imperio 2006, no. 3 (registration required to view article). She is currently a postdoctoral fellow of the 2006-07 Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Human Being, Human Diversity, & Human Welfare: A Cross-Disciplinary and Cross-Cultural Study in Culture, Science, & Medicine, hosted by the Franklin Humanities Institute.
