Harbin Arrival - The Capital of Heilongjiang Province
Nomadic Gatherings by Michel Guntern
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Nomadic Gatherings: Chapter Six: Northern Capitals - Harbin Arrival.
In the morning there were no clouds to burn off, but a light ground-frost to thaw.
Even in our double-glazed carriage I could feel the threatening chill outside. I put on another shirt, the growler put on another pair of thermals and a pair of trousers.
Disembarkation from the soft-sleeper was very civilised; perhaps no-one wanted to be first out into the cold air.
I followed my breath and made reserving an evening return bed to Beijing my first priority.
Harbin is the capital of Heilongjiang province with a population in excess of two million.
The Manchurian plains, the professor informed me, produced mainly corn; and wheat filled the fields in mid-summer. Now they were brown and bare.
Harbin was originally a fishing port; the name means fish-drying place but I only saw vegetables stacked in the sun.
The sun warmed the day, but the icy wind penetrated my thin layers of clothing and froze me.
History says that Japan invaded Manchuria in the early 1940s, and the Soviets followed in 1945.
Some of the dome-shaped architecture remains from the Russian period, although much was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.
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