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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Afinogenov, Gregory (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.
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