On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border Bill Franck
On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border Bill Franck A pioneering examination of history, current affairs, and daily life along the Russia-China border, one of the world's least understood and…
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On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border Bill Franck
A pioneering examination of history, current affairs, and daily life along the Russia-China border, one of the world's least understood and most politically charged frontiers.The border between Russia and China winds for 2,600 miles through rivers, swamps, and vast taiga forests. Franck Bill and Caroline Humphrey have spent years traveling through and studying this important yet forgotten region. It's a thin line of direct engagement, extraordinary contrasts, frequent tension, and occasional war between two of the world's political giants.
Two different worlds have emerged. Drawing on pioneering fieldwork, they introduce readers to the lifeways, politics, and history of one of the world's most consequential and enigmatic borderlands.It is telling that, along a border consisting mainly of rivers, there is not a single operating passenger bridge. On the Russian side,