Mark Gamsa
Biographic Data
| ID | 137826 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Gamsa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Gamsa |
| SIGNATURE | GAMSA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1883-8907 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Russian Avant-Garde's Figuring of China, 1900s to 1930s
This article examines the Russian and Soviet avant-garde's engagement with China across the visual arts, literature, cinema and theatre from the 1900s to the 1930s. It argues that two forces shaped that engagement: a fascination with the East rooted in wider European trends but inflected in the Russian case by Eurasianism and its intellectual predecessors, and socialism notably as articulated by the futurists. Such figurings of China consistently…
Border Crossing between the Russian Far East and Manchuria
This article addresses population movements across the Amur and the Ussuri River borders between Russia and China. It analyses the history of border crossing in this region from Russia’s acquisition of the Amur and Maritime provinces from the Qing Empire in 1860 to the present time, with a focus on the 1920s and 1930s. The article’s first part demonstrates that the movement of people (settlers, work migrants, refugees) across the two river border…
Irene Eber (1929–2019)
向伊愛蓮教授 (1929–2019) 致敬本文紀念伊愛蓮教授,她於 2019 年 4 月 10 日在耶路撒冷逝世,享年 89 歲。她是耶路撒冷希伯來大學東亞研究系的榮休教授,也是首位路易斯・弗裡伯格教授職位的主席。伊愛蓮教授是以色列中國研究的創始人之一。她廣泛的研究領域囊括了中國歷史、哲學、宗教和文學,尤其是中國人與猶太文化的相遇以及中國聖經的翻譯和傳播。她對開封和上海猶太社區的歷史研究為通曉中國猶太人的生活做出了重要貢獻。她還出版了尉禮賢(Richard Wilhelm,1873–1930)系列講座⟪易經:不變與變⟫(Lectures on the I Ching: Constancy and Change)的翻譯,並編輯了馬丁・布伯( Martin Buber ,1878–1965)編譯的關於中國哲學和文學的德文文集。伊愛蓮教授學術研究的標志之一就是她嚴謹的態度和清晰的表達。盡管童年的她生活在德國和波蘭,飽受戰爭和大屠殺的蹂躪,但她在各種困境中幸存下來並在其職業生涯卓有建樹,留下了經…
Cross-cultural contact in Manchuria
This article aims to uncover the lives of some of the individuals who, through the occupational and personal choices they made, moved between the Chinese and Russian societies of Manchuria (Northeast China) in the first half of the twentieth century. The Chinese Eastern Railway, which passed through the region and was central to its economy, provided the main framework for Chinese–Russian contact. Headquartered in Harbin, the Railway generated a …
Asiatics and Chinamen
This article compares two clusters of polemical language. One is comprised of critical uses of the term “Asiatic” in Russian political discourse from the 1890s to the 1910s. The other is Chinese usage, in the 1920s and 1930s, of the term “Zhina,” a Japanese version of “China” which was perceived as injurious to Chinese national pride. The article traces how, in both cases, political and cultural agents criticized their own country and society by …
Jürgen Osterhammel, The Transformation of the World
Refractions of China in Russia, and of Russia in China
This article analyses perceptions of China in Russia and of Russia in China by focusing on exchange through material culture, including the tea trade and the borrowing of architectural styles. It demonstrates that some things Chinese became domesticated in Russia, having first arrived there in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, whereas others continued to represent an exotic “China.” Fewer things Russian were familiar in imperial China. In…
Russian History
Communism and the Artistic Intelligentsia
This article is an effort at comparative history: it treats the intelligentsia in the Soviet Union along with the zhishi fenzi (literally, ‘knowledgeable elements’) in the People’s Republic of China. Starting from a discussion of these terms and ways in which they differ from the Western notion of intellectuals, the article then focuses on the creative work of artists under the two communist regimes. Looking also at the daily conditions, in which…
Tallinn
Uses and Misuses of a Chinese Renaissance
To adopt the least contentious of several definitions, the currents of thought and motifs in the arts that we associate with the Renaissance had their beginnings in fourteenth-century Florence. By the end of the fifteenth century they had spread out to other Italian cities while, during the sixteenth century, the Renaissance became a cross-European phenomenon. But was there also a “Renaissance beyond Europe”
Lontane, vicine. Le relazioni fra Cina e Italia nel Novecento
[Distant, Near: The Relations between China and Italy in the Twentieth Century], , Guido Samarani and Laura De Giorgi, Rome, Carocci editore, 2011, 168 pp, €15 (paperback), ISBN 978-88-430-5580-7 T
The Cultural and the Social in Chinese–Russian Relations
Scholarship on the relationship between China and Russia has largely focused on the political and ideological realms, neglecting cultural and social factors. Beginning with some general points about the role of ‘the cultural’ in interstate politics, this article assesses the cultural dynamics of Chinese–Russian relations during the first half of the twentieth century, primarily during the republican period and the first decade of the PRC. The fin…
Sergei Tret'iakov's Roar, China! between Moscow and China
The writer, poet and dramatist Sergei Tret'iakov was a central figure of the early Soviet literary and artistic avant-garde. Born in 1892 in Kuldiga, a town in what is now Latvia and was then the Governorate of Courland, one of the three Baltic provinces of the Russian empire, he was educated in prerevolutionary Riga and Moscow. Fluent also in Latvian and German, he started out as a poet in Russian and came under the influence of futurism when li…
Administering the Colonizer
Reviewed by: Administering the Colonizer: Manchuria's Russians under Chinese Rule, 1918-29 Mark Gamsa Chiasson, Blaine R — Administering the Colonizer: Manchuria's Russians under Chinese Rule, 1918-29. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010. Pp. x, 285. Although the place name Harbin is absent from its title, this is the third monograph in English to address the history of the city that the Russians built in Manchuria (Northeastern…
Harbin in comparative perspective
This article argues that historians have largely neglected the dimension of Chinese–Russian interaction, which was central to the development of Harbin from the emergence of this city in 1898 as an outpost of imperial Russia in Manchuria (north-east China). It goes on to propose a new approach to Harbin history, which, integrating its ‘Russian’ and ‘Chinese’ histories during the period prior to the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in 1932, would …
The Religious Dimension of Politics in Maoist China1
This article presents four main approaches to research on the dissemination of Marxist ideology in China: those of intellectual history, political or social history, history of religion and discourse analysis. Rather than argue for the theoretical applicability of the term 'political religion' to the case of China under the rule of Mao Zedong (1949-76), it offers a broader consideration of the relevance of religion to politics in modern China. It…
The Epidemic of Pneumonic Plague in Manchuria 1910-1911
Of the three forms of plague known to affect man, the most common bubonic variety (taking its name from the swollen ‘buboes’ that develop on the patient’s body) is carried by fleas from rodents to humans, but does not otherwise pass from person to person; before these facts were established by bacteriological science and before the emergence of antibiotics, this plague, most famously associated with the fourteenth-century Black Death, proved leth…
How a Republic of Chinese Red Beards was Invented in Paris
At the beginning, a warning is due: this is a study of a false trail to real events. Between the years 1883-86, a mixed community sprang up on a side stream of the river Albazikha, a right tributary of the upper Amur. The discovery of gold, in a Chinese territory previously unfamiliar to any but the local Evenki tribes, had brought about a stampede of fortune seekers. Since Russia's annexation of the Amur District by the Aigun treaty of 1858, and…
The Epidemic of Pneumonic Plague in Manchuria 1910-1911
Of the three forms of plague known to affect man, the most common bubonic variety (taking its name from the swollen ‘buboes’ that develop on the patient’s body) is carried by fleas from rodents to humans, but does not otherwise pass from person to person; before these facts were established by bacteriological science and before the emergence of antibiotics, this plague, most famously associated with the fourteenth-century Black Death, proved leth…
Uses and Misuses of a Chinese Renaissance
To adopt the least contentious of several definitions, the currents of thought and motifs in the arts that we associate with the Renaissance had their beginnings in fourteenth-century Florence. By the end of the fifteenth century they had spread out to other Italian cities while, during the sixteenth century, the Renaissance became a cross-European phenomenon. But was there also a “Renaissance beyond Europe”
Harbin in comparative perspective
This article argues that historians have largely neglected the dimension of Chinese–Russian interaction, which was central to the development of Harbin from the emergence of this city in 1898 as an outpost of imperial Russia in Manchuria (north-east China). It goes on to propose a new approach to Harbin history, which, integrating its ‘Russian’ and ‘Chinese’ histories during the period prior to the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in 1932, would …
Cross-cultural contact in Manchuria
This article aims to uncover the lives of some of the individuals who, through the occupational and personal choices they made, moved between the Chinese and Russian societies of Manchuria (Northeast China) in the first half of the twentieth century. The Chinese Eastern Railway, which passed through the region and was central to its economy, provided the main framework for Chinese–Russian contact. Headquartered in Harbin, the Railway generated a …
Border Crossing between the Russian Far East and Manchuria
This article addresses population movements across the Amur and the Ussuri River borders between Russia and China. It analyses the history of border crossing in this region from Russia’s acquisition of the Amur and Maritime provinces from the Qing Empire in 1860 to the present time, with a focus on the 1920s and 1930s. The article’s first part demonstrates that the movement of people (settlers, work migrants, refugees) across the two river border…
How a Republic of Chinese Red Beards was Invented in Paris
At the beginning, a warning is due: this is a study of a false trail to real events. Between the years 1883-86, a mixed community sprang up on a side stream of the river Albazikha, a right tributary of the upper Amur. The discovery of gold, in a Chinese territory previously unfamiliar to any but the local Evenki tribes, had brought about a stampede of fortune seekers. Since Russia's annexation of the Amur District by the Aigun treaty of 1858, and…
How a Republic of Chinese Red Beards was Invented in Paris
At the beginning, a warning is due: this is a study of a false trail to real events. Between the years 1883-86, a mixed community sprang up on a side stream of the river Albazikha, a right tributary of the upper Amur. The discovery of gold, in a Chinese territory previously unfamiliar to any but the local Evenki tribes, had brought about a stampede of fortune seekers. Since Russia's annexation of the Amur District by the Aigun treaty of 1858, and…
The Epidemic of Pneumonic Plague in Manchuria 1910-1911
Of the three forms of plague known to affect man, the most common bubonic variety (taking its name from the swollen ‘buboes’ that develop on the patient’s body) is carried by fleas from rodents to humans, but does not otherwise pass from person to person; before these facts were established by bacteriological science and before the emergence of antibiotics, this plague, most famously associated with the fourteenth-century Black Death, proved leth…
The Religious Dimension of Politics in Maoist China1
This article presents four main approaches to research on the dissemination of Marxist ideology in China: those of intellectual history, political or social history, history of religion and discourse analysis. Rather than argue for the theoretical applicability of the term 'political religion' to the case of China under the rule of Mao Zedong (1949-76), it offers a broader consideration of the relevance of religion to politics in modern China. It…
Harbin in comparative perspective
This article argues that historians have largely neglected the dimension of Chinese–Russian interaction, which was central to the development of Harbin from the emergence of this city in 1898 as an outpost of imperial Russia in Manchuria (north-east China). It goes on to propose a new approach to Harbin history, which, integrating its ‘Russian’ and ‘Chinese’ histories during the period prior to the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in 1932, would …
Administering the Colonizer
Reviewed by: Administering the Colonizer: Manchuria's Russians under Chinese Rule, 1918-29 Mark Gamsa Chiasson, Blaine R — Administering the Colonizer: Manchuria's Russians under Chinese Rule, 1918-29. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010. Pp. x, 285. Although the place name Harbin is absent from its title, this is the third monograph in English to address the history of the city that the Russians built in Manchuria (Northeastern…
The Cultural and the Social in Chinese–Russian Relations
Scholarship on the relationship between China and Russia has largely focused on the political and ideological realms, neglecting cultural and social factors. Beginning with some general points about the role of ‘the cultural’ in interstate politics, this article assesses the cultural dynamics of Chinese–Russian relations during the first half of the twentieth century, primarily during the republican period and the first decade of the PRC. The fin…
Sergei Tret'iakov's Roar, China! between Moscow and China
The writer, poet and dramatist Sergei Tret'iakov was a central figure of the early Soviet literary and artistic avant-garde. Born in 1892 in Kuldiga, a town in what is now Latvia and was then the Governorate of Courland, one of the three Baltic provinces of the Russian empire, he was educated in prerevolutionary Riga and Moscow. Fluent also in Latvian and German, he started out as a poet in Russian and came under the influence of futurism when li…
Communism and the Artistic Intelligentsia
This article is an effort at comparative history: it treats the intelligentsia in the Soviet Union along with the zhishi fenzi (literally, ‘knowledgeable elements’) in the People’s Republic of China. Starting from a discussion of these terms and ways in which they differ from the Western notion of intellectuals, the article then focuses on the creative work of artists under the two communist regimes. Looking also at the daily conditions, in which…
Tallinn
Uses and Misuses of a Chinese Renaissance
To adopt the least contentious of several definitions, the currents of thought and motifs in the arts that we associate with the Renaissance had their beginnings in fourteenth-century Florence. By the end of the fifteenth century they had spread out to other Italian cities while, during the sixteenth century, the Renaissance became a cross-European phenomenon. But was there also a “Renaissance beyond Europe”
Lontane, vicine. Le relazioni fra Cina e Italia nel Novecento
[Distant, Near: The Relations between China and Italy in the Twentieth Century], , Guido Samarani and Laura De Giorgi, Rome, Carocci editore, 2011, 168 pp, €15 (paperback), ISBN 978-88-430-5580-7 T
Russian History
Asiatics and Chinamen
This article compares two clusters of polemical language. One is comprised of critical uses of the term “Asiatic” in Russian political discourse from the 1890s to the 1910s. The other is Chinese usage, in the 1920s and 1930s, of the term “Zhina,” a Japanese version of “China” which was perceived as injurious to Chinese national pride. The article traces how, in both cases, political and cultural agents criticized their own country and society by …
Jürgen Osterhammel, The Transformation of the World
Refractions of China in Russia, and of Russia in China
This article analyses perceptions of China in Russia and of Russia in China by focusing on exchange through material culture, including the tea trade and the borrowing of architectural styles. It demonstrates that some things Chinese became domesticated in Russia, having first arrived there in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, whereas others continued to represent an exotic “China.” Fewer things Russian were familiar in imperial China. In…
Irene Eber (1929–2019)
向伊愛蓮教授 (1929–2019) 致敬本文紀念伊愛蓮教授,她於 2019 年 4 月 10 日在耶路撒冷逝世,享年 89 歲。她是耶路撒冷希伯來大學東亞研究系的榮休教授,也是首位路易斯・弗裡伯格教授職位的主席。伊愛蓮教授是以色列中國研究的創始人之一。她廣泛的研究領域囊括了中國歷史、哲學、宗教和文學,尤其是中國人與猶太文化的相遇以及中國聖經的翻譯和傳播。她對開封和上海猶太社區的歷史研究為通曉中國猶太人的生活做出了重要貢獻。她還出版了尉禮賢(Richard Wilhelm,1873–1930)系列講座⟪易經:不變與變⟫(Lectures on the I Ching: Constancy and Change)的翻譯,並編輯了馬丁・布伯( Martin Buber ,1878–1965)編譯的關於中國哲學和文學的德文文集。伊愛蓮教授學術研究的標志之一就是她嚴謹的態度和清晰的表達。盡管童年的她生活在德國和波蘭,飽受戰爭和大屠殺的蹂躪,但她在各種困境中幸存下來並在其職業生涯卓有建樹,留下了經…
Cross-cultural contact in Manchuria
This article aims to uncover the lives of some of the individuals who, through the occupational and personal choices they made, moved between the Chinese and Russian societies of Manchuria (Northeast China) in the first half of the twentieth century. The Chinese Eastern Railway, which passed through the region and was central to its economy, provided the main framework for Chinese–Russian contact. Headquartered in Harbin, the Railway generated a …
Border Crossing between the Russian Far East and Manchuria
This article addresses population movements across the Amur and the Ussuri River borders between Russia and China. It analyses the history of border crossing in this region from Russia’s acquisition of the Amur and Maritime provinces from the Qing Empire in 1860 to the present time, with a focus on the 1920s and 1930s. The article’s first part demonstrates that the movement of people (settlers, work migrants, refugees) across the two river border…
The Russian Avant-Garde's Figuring of China, 1900s to 1930s
This article examines the Russian and Soviet avant-garde's engagement with China across the visual arts, literature, cinema and theatre from the 1900s to the 1930s. It argues that two forces shaped that engagement: a fascination with the East rooted in wider European trends but inflected in the Russian case by Eurasianism and its intellectual predecessors, and socialism notably as articulated by the futurists. Such figurings of China consistently…
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