1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910148589303321

Autore

Ziegler Dominic

Titolo

Black Dragon River : A Journey down the Amur River Between Russia and China

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Rutherford : , : Penguin Publishing Group, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-698-41016-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 pages)

Classificazione

HIS003000TRV023000TRV003030

Disciplina

915.77

Soggetti

Amur River (China and Russia) Description and travel

Russia Territorial expansion

Siberia, Eastern (Russia) History

Russia Foreign relations China

China Foreign relations Russia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Prologue -- Part One: Onon -- Part Two: Irkutsk -- Part Three: Chita -- Part Four: Nerchinsk -- Part Five: Albazino -- Part Six: Blagoveshchensk -- Part Seven: Khabarovsk -- Part Eight: Nikolaevsk -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Black Dragon River is a personal journey down one of Asia's great rivers that reveals the region's essential history and culture. The world's ninth largest river, the Amur serves as a large part of the border between Russia and China. As a crossroads for the great empires of Asia, this area offers journalist Dominic Ziegler a lens with which to examine the societies at Europe's only borderland with east Asia. He follows a journey from the river's top to bottom, and weaves the history, ecology and peoples to show a region obsessed with the past--and to show how this region holds a key to the complex and critical relationship between Russia and China today"--NoveList.