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Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border

Name: Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border
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Contributors:

Soeren Urbansky

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History

Book Subcategory:

Russia, Asia

Book Topic:

Central Asia, China

Series:

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute

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Release Date:

2021-12-14

ISBN 13:

9780691208947

Weight:

1.25 lbs

Size:

9.10 x 6.10 x 1.00 inches

Pages:

392

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A comprehensive history of the Sino-Russian border, one of the longest and most important land borders in the world

The Sino-Russian border, once the world's longest land border, has received scant attention in histories about the margins of empires. Beyond the Steppe Frontier rectifies this by exploring the demarcation's remarkable transformation--from a vaguely marked frontier in the seventeenth century to its twentieth-century incarnation as a tightly patrolled barrier girded by watchtowers, barbed wire, and border guards. Through the perspectives of locals, including railroad employees, herdsmen, and smugglers from both sides, Sören Urbansky explores the daily life of communities and their entanglements with transnational and global flows of people, commodities, and ideas. Urbansky challenges top-down interpretations by stressing the significance of the local population in supporting, and undermining, border making.

Because Russian, Chinese, and native worlds are intricately interwoven, national separations largely remained invisible at the border between the two largest Eurasian empires. This overlapping and mingling came to an end only when the border gained geopolitical significance during the twentieth century. Relying on a wealth of sources culled from little-known archives from across Eurasia, Urbansky demonstrates how states succeeded in suppressing traditional borderland cultures by cutting kin, cultural, economic, and religious connections across the state perimeter, through laws, physical force, deportation, reeducation, forced assimilation, and propaganda.

Beyond the Steppe Frontier sheds critical new light on a pivotal geographical periphery and expands our understanding of how borders are determined.

About the Author
S?ren Urbansky is a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. He is the author of Kolonialer Wettstreit: Russland, China, Japan und die Ostchinesische Eisenbahn.

Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border

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