Description
Book SynopsisBeyond the Amur charts the pivotal role that an overlooked frontier river region and its environment played in Qing China’s politics and Sino-Russian relations.
Trade ReviewFor those interested in Sino-Russian relations or Northeast Asia generally, Beyond the Amur provides considerable background on a huge, yet still largely undocumented, region. More generally, it serves as a reminder that our current world of highly securitised borders, with strict control of passage, is relatively recent and perhaps anomalous.
-- Peter Gordon * Asian Review of Books *
Beyond the Amur is an enjoyable read, with stories of informal networks across the border, of the individuals whose life stories usually remain outside official narratives… The book will be of interest of historians of border zones and to historians of Russia and China as well as to the general reader.
-- Anna Belogurova, Freie Universität * Pacific Affairs, Volume 91, No. 4 *
By employing a cross-border perspective, Zatsepine's monograph is refreshing, as most previous studies have limited their scope to one side of the river.
-- Sören Urbansky, German Historical Institute * Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History *
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
1 A River Runs through It
2 They Came from Everywhere
3 Fur, Gold, and Local Trade
4 Imperial Russian Expansionism
5 Chinese Migrants in Frontier Towns
6 A Railway Runs through It
7 Conflict and War
8 Fading Frontiers
Conclusion
Appendix A: Chronology
Appendix B: Chinese Terms
Notes; Bibliography; Index
