Beyond the Amur
Beyond the Amur 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…
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Beyond the Amur
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. 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. Official histories depict the Amur as a distant battleground caught between rival empires.
This colorful account of a region and its people highlights the often overlooked influence of frontier developments on state politics and imperial policies and