This book “The Kaspe File: A Case Study of Harbin as an Intersection of Cultural and Ethnical Communities in Conflict 1932-1945” by Dr. The case of Semion Kaspe that examines the Japanese invasion of China, among other things, carried such barriers which produced huge difficulty to the interpretation of events, causes and effects of that time. Thus, all these may produce barriers between facts in history and the researcher. No matter what types of account they were, such as written records, memoirs, or visual materials, historical facts and accounts cannot be revealed in a crystal clear way due to the accouter’ point of view, let alone their acuteness and or deform of memories like semantic, procedural, episodic and field memories, and also with the possibility of evil intentions. Searching for facts is by no means easy as in most of the cases, history is accounted for not the real happenings but of memories of people. Therefore, searching for key notes and recognizing them in an overall perspective are a prerequisite to establish a logical connection of the piece, music as well as text. History is just like a concerto in which some key musical notes are comprised into larger parts and thus make it a complete composition. Harbin, China History is not a pile of arbitrary facts, but rather a series of incontrovertible truths that happened in a certain special time, situation, and that hold cause and effects. Yin Tiechao, Heilongjiang University, School of Western Studies. The illustrations that have been analyzed show that the events related to the pulmonary plague epidemic in Harbin and the serious differences that arose at that time in the medical environment did not remain unnoticed by the Harbin public and confirm the public interest in health care and its medical representatives.ĭeciphering History By Prof. In this article only one view is studied – that of the Russian-speaking community in Harbin, reflected in a series of cartoons from the Novaya Zhizn newspaper. Harbin's various social groups at that time had different views on the events related to the plague epidemic. Officially, the conflict was not resolved, as Zabolotny urgently left Harbin for Transbaikal, where his expedition for the first time isolated the causative agent of the plague from tarbagans. At the end of May 1911, a group of doctors announced that Zabolotny did not allow Harbin doctors to attend the Mukden conference. The relationship between Harbin doctors and Zabolotny was tense from the very beginning, growing into an open confrontation in April 1911. Zabolotny, who became one of the initiators of vaccinations against the plague, and the elimination of rodents, which were the infection's presumed vectors. In the winter of 1910–1911, the board of the Chinese Eastern Railway sent a group of epidemiologists to Harbin. The satire in Novaya Zhizn was mainly aimed at finding those guilty for the epidemic. Bureaucracy and the ineffectiveness of a number of medical measures were subject to criticism. The article presents an analysis and interpretation of the satirical illustrations published in the Harbin newspaper Novaya Zhizn on the events connected with the pneumonic plague epidemic in Harbin (1910–1911).
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