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Beyond the Amur

Frontier Encounters between China and Russia, 1850-1930

by (author) Victor Zatsepine

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2017
Category
China, Russia & the Former Soviet Union
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774834094
    Publish Date
    Feb 2017
    List Price
    $80.00

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Description

Beyond the Amur describes the distinctive frontier society that emerged in the Amur, a river region that shifted between Qing China and imperial Russia as the two empires competed for resources. Official histories depict the Amur as a distant battleground caught between rival empires. Zatsepine, by contrast, views it as a unified natural economy populated by Chinese, Russian, Indigenous, Japanese, Korean, Manchu, and Mongol people who crossed the border in search of work or trade and who came together to survive a harsh physical environment. This colourful account of a region and its people highlights the often overlooked influence of frontier developments on state politics and imperial policies and histories.

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Contributor Notes

Victor Zatsepine is an assistant professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Connecticut and the co-editor of Harbin to Hanoi: The Colonial Built Environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940.