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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