On The Edge: Life Along Russia-China Border Caroline Humphrey Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

A Pioneering Examination Of History Current Affairs And Daily Life Along The Russia–China Border One World’s Least Understood Most Politically Charged Frontiers Between Russia China Winds For 2 600 Miles Through Rivers Swamps Vast Taiga Forests It’s Thin Line Direct Engagement Extraordinary Contrasts Frequent Tension Occasional War Two Political Giants Franck Billé Caroline Humphrey Have Spent Years Traveling Studying This Important Yet Forgotten Region Drawing On Fieldwork They Introduce Readers To Lifeways Politics Consequential Enigmatic Borderlands It Is Telling That Consisting Mainly There Not Single Operating Passenger Bridge Different Worlds Emerged Russian Side In Territory Seized From Nineteenth Century Defense Prioritized Over Economy Leaving Dilapidated Villages Slumbering Amid Its Part Chinese Heavily Settled Increasingly Prosperous Dynamic Moscow Worries About Imbalance Both Governments Discourage Citizens Interacting But As Show Cross-Border Connection Fact Whatever Distant Authorities Say Are Marriages Friendships Sexual Encounters Joint Businesses Underground Deals Including No Shortage Smuggling Meanwhile Some Indigenous Peoples Persecuted Sides Seek “Revive” Their Own Alternative Social Groupings Span Towns Make Much Proximity “Europe ” Building Giant Dolls Replicas St Basil’s Cathedral Woo Tourists Surprising Rigorously Researched Edge Testifies Rich Diversity An World Haunted By Divided Remote Decisions Connected Ordinary Imperatives Σελίδες: 400 Έτος Έκδοσης: 1130 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm