Spies and Scholars : : Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power / / Gregory Afinogenov.
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...
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Maps and Illustrations -- |t Note on Calendar and Transliteration -- |t Introduction -- |t PART I. MUSCOVITE STATECRAFT AND HYBRID KNOWLEDGE -- |t 1. Muscovy on the Knowledge Frontier -- |t 2. Seeing China through Russian Eyes -- |t PART II. BUREAUCRATS AND THEIR SECRETS -- |t 3. Secret Missions, Troublesome Missionaries -- |t 4. Scholarship and Expertise at Home and Abroad -- |t 5. The Caravan as a Knowledge Bureaucracy -- |t 6. The Commerce of Long-Distance Letters -- |t PART III. REMAKING KNOWLEDGE ON THE FRONTIER -- |t 7. Frontier Intelligence and the Struggle for Inner Asia -- |t 8. Spies and Subversion in Eastern Siberia -- |t PART IV. INTELLIGENCE AND SINOLOGY in SEARCH of WORLD POWER -- |t 9. Imperial Encounters in the North Pacific -- |t 10. Making Russian Sinology in the Age of Napoleon -- |t Conclusion -- |t Appendix: Reign Dates -- |t Abbreviations -- |t Notes -- |t Bibliography -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Index |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Intellectuals |z Russia |x Attitudes. | |
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