Beyond the Amur : Frontier Encounters between China and Russia, 1850-1930 Paperback / softback
by Victor Zatsepine
Part of the Contemporary Chinese Studies series
Paperback / softback
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Beyond the Amur describes the distinctive frontier society that developed in the Amur, a river region that shifted between Qing China and Imperial Russia as the two empires competed for natural resources.
Although official imperial histories depict the Amur as a distant battleground between rival empires, this colourful history of a region and its people tells a different story. Drawing on both Russian and Chinese sources, Victor Zatsepine shows that both empires struggled to maintain the border.
But much to the chagrin of imperial administrators, various peoples – Chinese, Russian, Indigenous, Japanese, Korean, Manchu, and Mongol – moved freely across it in pursuit of work and trade, exchanging ideas and knowledge as they adapted to the harsh physical environment. By viewing the Amur as a unified natural economy caught between two empires, Zatsepine highlights the often-overlooked influence of regional developments on imperial policies and the importance of climate and geography to local, state, and imperial histories.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, 20 figs, 9 tables
- Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
- Publication Date:01/10/2017
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- ISBN:9780774834100
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, 20 figs, 9 tables
- Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
- Publication Date:01/10/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780774834100
