Outline of the Municipal Administration of Harbin Special City: Harbin Special City Public Office, 1937

Description & Historical Context

Outline of the Municipal Administration of Harbin Special City — 1937

An official outline of the municipal administration of Harbin Special City, compiled by the Harbin Special City Public Office and published in 1937. The volume sets out the structure and workings of the city's government under Manchukuo — its administrative organisation, public works, finances, and civic services drawn together into an authoritative account of how one of the great cities of the Northeast was governed.

The work comprises a nineteen-page frontispiece section, six pages of contents, two hundred and ninety-five pages of main text, a five-page appendix, and a seven-page supplement, forming a thorough institutional record. Official administrative outlines of this kind were issued for governmental and institutional use, preserving a detailed and fixed account of urban government at a particular moment.

As a primary administrative source, the volume is of clear value to historians of Harbin, of Manchukuo-era city government, and of the civic life of the Northeast. Surviving copies are a specific and uncommon resource.

A genuine official document of the period, well suited to a serious collection of Manchuria and Northeast Asian historical materials.

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