My grandparents were Russians from Harbin who were evacuated from Shanghai to Australia. My grandfather was born there to refugees from the civil war, and my grandmother's parents took her to China as a young girl.

They died when I was very young, since I'm the youngest child of their youngest child and I therefore never got to ask them questions about what life was like for Russians in China and my relatives don't have much information either. All I know is that their house was filled with Chinese trinkets and my grandfather felt more at home on holidays in Hong Kong (which was a British colony for most of his life) then he did in the mainstream culture of Australia.

Is there any good information in the life of Russians in China, particularly in Shanghai and Harbin and I am more interested in what it was like for white (anti-Soviet, mainly ethnic Russians and Ukrainians) emigrants as opposed to the Jews of Shanghai which is what most of the information online is.

Primary sources like autobiographies as well as pieces from contemporary media would be specifically appreciated but any kind of detailed info on the topic would be great as well!