Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between
Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between
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镜国：俄罗斯、中国以及其间的旅程
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10.1080/03068374.2019.1706360
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2020
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通讯作者：
Sophie Ibbotson
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作者：
Sophie Ibbotson
随着本书的进展，普尔福德乘坐公共交通工具穿越中俄边境两侧的地区，与居住在那里的当地人见面，有时还与边境城镇之间进行国际贸易。他访问的一些定居点是哈尔滨和哈巴罗夫斯克等大城市。其他的早已失去了历史重要性，成为被遗忘的前哨站，或者在俄罗斯一侧更常见的是人口稀少的鬼村。普尔福德描述的多重身份——对于每个国家以及他们对另一个国家的看法——是相当复杂和微妙的。曼祖利的巨型俄罗斯套娃和“华丽的仿欧式建筑”，以及相当荒凉的俄罗斯小镇奥洛奇的木屋、苏联公寓楼以及熊和熊猫的巨幅照片，都体现了陈旧的刻板印象。普尔福德认出了它们的本来面目，它们是人造的、薄如纸的，代表着一个不为人知但略带异国情调的国家，就在几米之外。但他也指出
As the book progresses, Pulford travels by public transport through the regions on either side of the Sino-Russian border, meeting the local people who live there and, in some cases, trade internationally between the border towns. Some of the settlements he visits are substantial cities such as Harbin and Khabarovsk; others have long lost their historic importance and become forgotten outposts or, more commonly on the Russian side, depopulated ghost villages.The multiple identities which Pulford describes–for each country, and in their perception of the other–are appropriately complex and nuanced. Well-worn stereotypes are played out through giant matrioshka dolls and a “gaudy array of faux-European buildings” in Manzouli, and wooden houses, Soviet apartment blocks, and giant photos of bears and pandas in the fairly desolate Russian town of Olochi. Pulford recognises them for what they are, artificial and paper thin representations of an unknown but faintly exotic country just metres away. But he also notes