Beyond the Amur: Frontier Encounters Between China and Russia, 1850-1930

by Victor Zatsepine

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774834102
• ISBN13: 9780774834100
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"