Spies and scholars : Chinese secrets and Imperial Russia's quest for world power /

"Spies and Scholars explores centuries of Russian spying and scholarship on the Far East. In the seventeenth century, Russian bureaucrats were focused on China and the forbidding Siberian frontier. They relied more on spies, including Jesuit scholars stationed in China. In the early nineteenth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Afinogenov, Gregory (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.
Temas:
Espionage, Russian > China > History.
Intellectuals > Russia > Attitudes.
East and West.
Espionnage russe > Chine > Histoire.
Intellectuels > Russie > Attitudes.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
HISTORY / Asia / China
East and West
Espionage, Russian
Intellectuals > Attitudes
Education
China > Study and teaching > Russia > History.
Chine > Étude et enseignement > Russie > Histoire.
China
Russia
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Muscovy on the knowledge frontier
  • 2. Seeing China through Russian eyes
  • 3. Secret missions, troublesome missionaries
  • 4. Scholarship and expertise at home and abroad
  • 5. The caravan as a knowledge bureaucracy
  • 6. The commerce of long-distance letters
  • 7. Frontier intelligence and the struggle for Inner Asia
  • 8. Spies and subversion in Eastern Siberia
  • 9. Imperial encounters in the North Pacific
  • 10. Making Russian Sinology in the age of Napoleon
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Reign dates.

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