https://www.scmp.com/rss/500179/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Harbin, in China’s far northeast, owes its modern beginnings entirely to a railway. For the first three decades of the 20th century, it was effectively a Russian city. It is a place that has sparked my curiosity ever since I came across a 1927 ship’s passenger list that revealed the name of my grandfather Frank Newman’s “second wife”: Nina Kovaleva, 25, born in Sevastopol, Russia. He would leave his Shanghai-based family with her in the early 1930s. The list also named a daughter, Kyra, aged... https://www.scmp.com/society/trail-my-secret-white-russian-grandmother-harbin-china-and-her-descendants-america-i-knew-nothing/article/3038886?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/trail-my-secret-white-russian-grandmother-harbin-china-and-her-descendants-america-i-knew-nothing/article/3038886?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 22 Nov 2019 10:04:05 +0000