Contents: Fengshi Eluosi riji 奉使俄羅斯日記 / Zhang Penghe 張鵬翮 -- Yu Eluosiguo dingjie zhi bei 與俄羅斯國定界之碑 / Xu Yuanwen 徐元文 -- Nibuchu chengkao 尼布楚城考 / He Qiutao 何秋濤 -- Eluosi zuolingkao 俄羅斯佐領考 / Yu Zhengxie 俞正燮 -- Eluosi jincheng shuji mulu 俄羅斯進呈書籍目錄 / Yiming 佚名 -- Yili dingyue Zhong-E tanhualu 伊犂定約中俄談話錄 / Yiming 佚名.
民國29 [1940].

Background: revival of Russian interest in the Far East -- Traditional Chinese diplomacy in retreat: The Treaty of Aigun -- Capitulation: The Treaty of Peking -- Ethnic tensions: the Muslim uprising and Russian invasion -- Chinese diplomacy in disarray: The Treaty of Livadia -- A reprieve: The Treaty of St. Petersburg -- The apogee of Tsarist imperialism: the Chinese Eastern Railway -- Over-extension: the Boxer Uprising and the Russian invasion -- Roll-back: the Russo-Japanese War -- Mongolia: the last frontier -- Tsarist foreign policy: Mongolian autonomy and Chinese Suzerainty -- Soviet foreign policy: Mongolian independence under Soviet tutelage.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Note on Calendar and Transliteration -- Introduction.

I. Muscovite Statecraft and Hybrid Knowledge
1. Muscovy on the Knowledge Frontier
2. Seeing China through Russian Eyes
II. Bureaucrats and their Secrets
3. Secret Missions, Troublesome Missionaries
5. The Caravan as a Knowledge Bureaucracy
6. The Commerce of Long-Distance Letters
III. Remaking Knowledge on the Frontier
7. Frontier Intelligence and the Struggle for Inner Asia
8. Spies and Subversion in Eastern Siberia
IV. Intelligence and Sinology in Search of World Power
9. Imperial Encounters in the North Pacific
10. Making Russian Sinology in the Age of Napoleon
11. Conspiracy and Conquest on the Amur
Conclusion

Appendix: Reign Dates -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Gregory Afinogenov explores centuries of Russian spying and scholarship on the Far East. He argues that the approaches the empire took are closely related to its leaders' perception of Russia's place in the world. Espionage gave way to public-facing, academic study, as Russia sought to outdo Britain in a global contest for imperial prestige.

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