Книга
Zatsepine, Victor
UBC Press, 2017
Beyond the Amur: Frontier Encounters between China and Russia, 1850-1930 (Contemporary Chinese Studies)
Аннотация
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 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 Zatzepine shows that both empires struggled to maintain the border. But much to the chagrin of imperial administrators, various people — 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.
Drawing on both Russian and Chinese sources, Victor Zatzepine shows that both empires struggled to maintain the border. But much to the chagrin of imperial administrators, various people — 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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