Beyond the Amur

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"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."--

subjects: China, foreign relations, soviet union,  Russia (federation), foreign relations,  China, social conditions,  Russia (federation), social conditions,  Amur river (china and russia),  China, history, 19th century,  Russia (federation), history,  History