Black Dragon River : A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires / Dominic Ziegler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ziegler, Dominic, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ziegler, Dominic--Travel--Amur River (China and Russia).

Ziegler, Dominic.

Territorial expansion.

Travel.

Amur River (China and Russia)--Description and travel.

Amur River (China and Russia).

Russia--Territorial expansion.

Russia.

Siberia, Eastern (Russia)--History.

Siberia, Eastern (Russia).

Russia--Foreign relations--China.

International relations.

China.

China--Foreign relations--Russia.

Physical Description:

357 pages : map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Press, 2015.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-344) and index.

ISBN:

9781594203671

1594203679

OCLC:

927297507