Spies and scholars : Chinese secrets and Imperial Russia's quest for world power / Gregory Afinogeno...
Spies and scholars : Chinese secrets and Imperial Russia's quest for world power / Gregory Afinogeno...
Spies and scholars : Chinese secrets and Imperial Russia's quest for world power / Gregory Afinogenov.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.
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G 2020/2163
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English
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367 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Part I. Muscovite statecraft and hybrid knowledge: Muscovy on the knowledge frontier -- Seeing China through Russian eyes -- Part II. Bureaucrats and their secrets: Secret missions, troublesome missionaries -- Scholarship and expertise at home and abroad -- The caravan as a knowledge bureaucracy --...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2020.
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"Spies and Scholars explores centuries of Russian spying and scholarship on the Far East. In the seventeenth century, Russian bureaucrats were focused on China and the forbidding Siberian frontier. They relied more on spies, including Jesuit scholars stationed in China. In the early nineteenth century, the geopolitical challenge shifted to Europe:...
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Spies and scholars : Chinese secrets and Imperial Russia's quest for world power / Gregory Afinogenov.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/2163
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74VKaPqwWP4b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaPqwWP4b
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ISBN
0674241851 hardcover
9780674241855 hardcover
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327.124705109032
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991024310415302626
