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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award, History & Humanities category"
"This is a rich account of one of the world’s longest national borders."
---K.E. Stapleton, Choice"A brilliant cross between a Lonely Planet Guide for the place you never wanted to visit and a serious academic study of life in imperial borderlands. It’s an interdisciplinary cocktail of history, politics, economics, sociology and anthropology."
---Sergey Radchenko, China Quarterly"Urbansky’s remarkable study manages to embed the history of Sino-Russian international relations into the messy and wavering social reality of a borderland that was also shaped by the cultures, agendas, and material interests of the successive generations of its inhabitants."
---N. Pianciola, Slavonic and East European Review"
Beyond the Steppe Frontier is a great read and a very important book for anyone studying Chinese and Russian history, but it is also for students of other border regions. Certain lacunae in presenting a bigger picture are compensated by skillful reconstruction of the processes on the ground. The book makes one want to read the next study."
---Camille Neufville, Ab Imperio Quarterly"
Beyond the Steppe Frontier gives life to the Sino-Russian border. [Urbansky] has brilliantly served students, scholars, and history enthusiasts by presenting a compelling, innovative, and well-researched book on the recent Sino-Russian past that reminds us that human interactions make history. This human dimension, which is so central to the volume, is also responsible for making Urbansky’s thought-provoking work such an enjoyable read."
---Giulia Sciorati, E-International Relations"Richly detailed. . . .
Beyond the Steppe Frontier sheds new light on the history of the Sino-Russian border by its effort to consider the varied perspectives of its inhabitants."
---Elizabeth Wishnick, The Middle Ground Journal
