Beyond the Amur
Subtitle: Frontier Encounters Between China and Russia, 1850-1930
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780774834094
Subjects: China, foreign relations, soviet union; Russia (federation), foreign relations; China, social conditions; Russia (federation), social conditions
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."--