Beyond the Amur
Frontier Encounters between China and Russia, 1850-1930
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2017
- Category
- China, Russia & the Former Soviet Union
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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.
About the author
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.