02313nam 22004573 450 991014858930332120230807213102.00-698-41016-5(CKB)3710000000921845(MiAaPQ)EBC6108044(Au-PeEL)EBL6108044(OCoLC)1156044137(EXLCZ)99371000000092184520210901d2015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBlack Dragon River A Journey down the Amur River Between Russia and ChinaEast Rutherford :Penguin Publishing Group,2015.©2015.1 online resource (349 pages)1-59420-367-9 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."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.Amur River (China and Russia)Description and travelRussiaTerritorial expansionSiberia, Eastern (Russia)HistoryRussiaForeign relationsChinaChinaForeign relationsRussia915.77HIS003000TRV023000TRV003030bisacshZiegler Dominic1242816MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910148589303321Black Dragon River2882950UNINA