Russian Art Nouveau as a Brand for a Railway Line in Northeast China from its Construction to its Heritagization KU Leuven
The Chinese Eastern Railway (CER) was built by the Russian Empire between 1896 and 1901 in Northeast China as part of the Siberian Railway network. Important buildings along the line as well as the promotional literature were designed in Art Nouveau style, a then Western fashionable style associated with modernity and used as a tool or promoting development in the “Far Northeast”. From 2006 until present, 229 CER-related monuments were confirmed ...