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Outline of the State of Harbin Special City, Kotoku 3 Edition: Harbin Special City Public Office, 1937
Outline of the State of Harbin Special City — Kotoku 3 Edition, 1937
An official statistical and administrative outline of Harbin Special City, the Kotoku 3 edition, issued by the Harbin Special City Public Office in 1937. The volume sets out a comprehensive portrait of the city as it stood under Manchukuo administration — its government, population, economy, and civic conditions assembled from official sources into a single authoritative overview running to some two hundred and ninety-five pages.
The work is prefaced by a substantial photographic section of twenty-eight pages, providing a contemporary visual record of Harbin's streets, institutions, and public works alongside the statistical text. Official city outlines of this kind were produced for institutional and administrative use rather than general sale, and they preserve a fixed and detailed reading of a great Northeastern city at a particular moment in its history.
As a primary administrative and statistical source, the volume is of clear value to historians of Harbin, of Manchukuo-era urban government, and of the social and economic 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.
Offered by KT Vintage, drawing on decades of trusted international sales to discerning collectors and institutions across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania.
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Outline of the State of Harbin Special City — Kotoku 3 Edition, 1937
An official statistical and administrative outline of Harbin Special City, the Kotoku 3 edition, issued by the Harbin Special City Public Office in 1937. The volume sets out a comprehensive portrait of the city as it stood under Manchukuo administration — its government, population, economy, and civic conditions assembled from official sources into a single authoritative overview running to some two hundred and ninety-five pages.
The work is prefaced by a substantial photographic section of twenty-eight pages, providing a contemporary visual record of Harbin's streets, institutions, and public works alongside the statistical text. Official city outlines of this kind were produced for institutional and administrative use rather than general sale, and they preserve a fixed and detailed reading of a great Northeastern city at a particular moment in its history.
As a primary administrative and statistical source, the volume is of clear value to historians of Harbin, of Manchukuo-era urban government, and of the social and economic 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.
Offered by KT Vintage, drawing on decades of trusted international sales to discerning collectors and institutions across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania.
Collation
| Category | Books |
|---|---|
| Condition | acceptable |
| SKU | N0000017378 |
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