ISBN:
9780415629218
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (238 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version China and Japan in the Russian Imagination, 1685-1922: To the Ends of the Orient
DDC:
303.4824705
Keywords:
East Asia - Discovery and exploration - Russian
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Throughout the centuries, as Russia strove to build itself into an imperial power equal to those in the West, China and Japan came to occupy a special place in Russians' view of the orient. Never colonised by Russia or the West, China and Japan were linked not only to the greatest of Russian imperial fantasies, but also, conversely, to a deep sense of insecurity regarding Russia's place in the world, a sense of insecurity which deepened as China and Japan began to modernise in the later nineteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of works by Russian writers and thinkers, Lim sets out how Ru
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; China and Japan in the Russian Imagination, 1685-1922; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Note on transliteration and dates; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: To the Pacific Ocean; 1 From Albazin to Nagasaki: Russia's first contacts with China and Japan, 1685-1813; 2 "Confucius on the Northern throne": China in the age of Catherine, 1762-96; 3 Looking at China; thinking of Russia, 1790-1840; 4 The dawn of the Pacific era: Russia and East Asia, 1850s-80s; 5 From Pan-Mongolism to proto-Eurasianism, 1890-1900; 6 Revolution and the yellow peril, 1890s-1910s
Description / Table of Contents:
Conclusion: The continent of ASSUNotes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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