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Russian orientalism : Asia in the Russian mind from Peter the Great to the emigration / David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye.
LIBRA DS32.9.R9 S35 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orientalism--Russia--History.
- Orientalism.
- Relations.
- Public opinion.
- History.
- Asia--Study and teaching--Russia.
- Asia.
- Russia--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Russia.
- Intellectual life.
- Russia--Intellectual life--1801-1917.
- Asia--Foreign public opinion, Russian.
- Public opinion--Russia--History.
- Russia--Relations--Asia.
- Asia--Relations--Russia.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 298 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Introduction: What is Russian orientalism?
- The forest and the steppe
- The Petrine dawn
- Catherinian chinoiserie
- The oriental muse
- The Kazan school
- Missionary orientology
- The rise of the St. Petersburg school
- The oriental faculty
- The exotic self
- Conclusion: Asia in the Russian mind.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300110630
- 0300110634
- OCLC:
- 149473713
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