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1 online resource (367 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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 century, the geopolitical challenge shifted to Europe: rivalry with Britain drove the Russians to stake their prestige on public-facing intellectual work, and knowledge of the East was embedded in the academy. None of these institutional configurations was especially effective in delivering strategic or commercial advantages. But various knowledge regimes did have their consequences. Knowledge filtered through Russian espionage and publication found its way to Europe, informing the encounter between China and Western empires"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Espionage, Russian -- China -- History.
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Intellectuals -- Russia -- Attitudes.
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East and West.
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China -- Study and teaching -- Russia -- History.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- China. |
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HISTORY / Asia / China |
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East and West |
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Espionage, Russian |
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Intellectuals -- Attitudes |
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Education |
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China https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcrd4RjtCBk4wfMhTwwG3 |
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Russia |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Afinogenov, Gregory. Spies and scholars. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020 9780674241855 (DLC) 2019045276 (OCoLC)1119748863 |
| ISBN |
9780674246591 (pdf) |
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0674246594 (pdf) |
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9780674246577 (epub) |
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0674246578 (epub) |
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9780674241855 (hardcover) |
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0674241851 |
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9780674241855 |
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