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Beyond The Amur
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Author : Victor Zatsepine
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2017-03-09
Beyond The Amur written by Victor Zatsepine and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-09 with History categories.
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.
Beyond The Amur
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Author : Victor Zatsepine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Beyond The Amur written by Victor Zatsepine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Amur River (China and Russia) categories.
A river runs through it -- They came from everywhere -- Fur, gold, and local trade -- Imperial Russian expansionism -- Chinese migrants in frontier towns -- A railway runs through it -- Conflict and war -- Fading frontiers
Beyond The Amur
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Author : Victor Zatsepine
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2017-03-09
Beyond The Amur written by Victor Zatsepine and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-09 with History categories.
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.
The Amur River
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Author : Colin Thubron
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2021-09-16
The Amur River written by Colin Thubron and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-16 with Travel categories.
'Thubron on top form. Richly detailed, immaculately written and full of insights and encounters that bring a complex corner of the world to life' MICHAEL PALIN 'A masterpiece' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE 'Unforgettable' ANTONY BEEVOR As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week _______________ A dramatic and ambitious new journey from our greatest travel writer. Rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific, the Amur River forms the tense border between Russia and China. This is the most densely fortified frontier on Earth. In his eightieth year, Colin Thubron takes a dramatic and often treacherous journey from the Amur's secret source to its giant mouth, covering almost 3,000 miles. Harassed by injury and by arrest from the local police, he makes his way along both the Russian and Chinese shores. By the time he reaches the river's desolate end, a whole, pivotal world has come alive. _______________ 'An epic journey along a frozen, fraught frontier... Fascinating' The Times 'This book is a triumph' Daily Telegraph A Financial Times, Sunday Telegraph and Spectator Book of the Year Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 2022
Black Dragon River
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Author : Dominic Ziegler
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2015-11-10
Black Dragon River written by Dominic Ziegler and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-10 with History categories.
Black Dragon River is a personal journey down one of Asia’s great rivers that reveals the region’s essential history and culture. The world’s ninth largest river, the Amur serves as a large part of the border between Russia and China. As a crossroads for the great empires of Asia, this area offers journalist Dominic Ziegler a lens with which to examine the societies at Europe's only borderland with east Asia. He follows a journey from the river's top to bottom, and weaves the history, ecology and peoples to show a region obsessed with the past—and to show how this region holds a key to the complex and critical relationship between Russia and China today. One of Asia’s mightiest rivers, the Amur is also the most elusive. The terrain it crosses is legendarily difficult to traverse. Near the river’s source, Ziegler travels on horseback from the Mongolian steppe into the taiga, and later he is forced by the river’s impassability to take the Trans-Siberian Railway through the four-hundred-mile valley of water meadows inland. As he voyages deeper into the Amur wilderness, Ziegler also journeys into the history of the peoples and cultures the river’s path has transformed. The known history of the river begins with Genghis Khan and the rise of the Mongolian empire a millennium ago, and the story of the region has been one of aggression and conquest ever since. The modern history of the river is the story of Russia's push across the Eurasian landmass to China. For China, the Amur is a symbol of national humiliation and Western imperial land seizure; to Russia it is a symbol of national regeneration, its New World dreams and eastern prospects. The quest to take the Amur was to be Russia’s route to greatness, replacing an oppressive European identity with a vibrant one that faced the Pacific. Russia launched a grab in 1854 and took from China a chunk of territory equal in size nearly to France and Germany combined. Later, the region was the site for atrocities meted out on the Russian far east in the twentieth century during the Russian civil war and under Stalin. The long shared history on the Amur has conditioned the way China and Russia behave toward each other—and toward the outside world. To understand Putin’s imperial dreams, we must comprehend Russia’s relationship to its far east and how it still shapes the Russian mind. Not only is the Amur a key to Putinism, its history is also embedded in an ongoing clash of empires with the West.
The Soviet Far East
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Author : Erich Thiel
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-04-12
The Soviet Far East written by Erich Thiel and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-12 with Political Science categories.
The Soviet Far East (1957) examines the Soviet economic and political development of the Russian Far East between Lake Baikal and the Pacific, as it gained importance as the geographic base of Soviet power in the Far Eastern theatre of international politics and strategy.
Beyond Those Mountains
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Author : Dick Thiessen
language : en
Publisher: Kindred Productions
Release Date : 1993
Beyond Those Mountains written by Dick Thiessen and has been published by Kindred Productions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Fiction categories.
Manchuria
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Author : Mark Gamsa
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-02-06
Manchuria written by Mark Gamsa and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-06 with History categories.
Manchuria is a historical region, which roughly corresponds to Northeast China. The Manchu people, who established the last dynasty of Imperial China (the Qing, 1644–1911) originated there, and it has been the stage of turbulent events during the twentieth century: the Russo-Japanese war, Japanese occupation and establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo, Soviet invasion, and Chinese civil war. This innovative and accessible historical survey both introduces Manchuria to students and general readers and contributes to the emerging regional perspective in the study of China.
A History Of The Peoples Of Siberia
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Author : James Forsyth
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1994-09-08
A History Of The Peoples Of Siberia written by James Forsyth and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-09-08 with History categories.
This is the first ethnohistory of Siberia to appear in English, tracing the history of the native peoples from the Russian conquest onwards. James Forsyth compares the Siberian experience with that of the Indians and Eskimos in North America and the book as a whole will provide readers with a vast corpus of ethnographic information previously inaccessible to Western scholars.
Beyond Suffering
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Author : James Flath
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2011-04-13
Beyond Suffering written by James Flath and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-13 with History categories.
China was afflicted by a brutal succession of conflicts through much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Yet there has never been clear understanding of how wartime suffering has defined the nation and shaped its people. In Beyond Suffering, a distinguished group of Chinese historians draws on often fragmentary accounts of nearly forgotten incidents to piece together the multiple fronts – social, institutional, and cultural – on which wars have been fought, experienced, and remembered. From the Blagoveshchensk Massacre to the trials of the Jiangxi Number One Children’s Home, these accounts of war-inflicted suffering bring us closer to understanding war and militarism in China.