China and Japan in the Russian imagination, 1685-1922 : to the ends of the Orient / Susanna Soojung Lim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lim, Susanna Soojung, author.

Series:

Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia (2005) ; 79.

Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 79

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russia--Relations--China--History.

Russia.

China--Relations--Russia--History.

China.

Russia--Relations--Japan--History.

Japan--Relations--Russia--History.

Japan.

East Asia--Discovery and exploration--Russian.

East Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Throughout the centuries, as Russia strove to build itself into an imperial power equal to those in the West, China and Japan came to occupy a special place in Russians' view of the orient. Never colonised by Russia or the West, China and Japan were linked not only to the greatest of Russian imperial fantasies, but also, conversely, to a deep sense of insecurity regarding Russia's place in the world, a sense of insecurity which deepened as China and Japan began to modernise in the later nineteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of works by Russian writers and thinkers, Lim sets out how Ru

Contents:

Introduction: to the Pacific Ocean

From Albazin to Nagasaki: Russia's first contacts with China and Japan, 1685-1813

"Confucius on the northern throne": China in the age of Catherine, 1762-1796

Looking at China, thinking of Russia, 1790-1840

The dawn of the Pacific Era: Russia and East Asia, 1850s-1880s

From pan-mongolism to proto-eurasianism, 1890-1900

Revolution and the yellow peril: 1890s-1910s

The continent of ASSU.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-07161-6

0-203-59450-9

1-299-28041-2

1-135-07162-4

9780203594506

OCLC:

830160809