Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border

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A comprehensive history of the Sino-Russian border, one of the longest and most important land borders in the world The Sino-Russian border, once the world's longest land border, has received scant attention in histories about the margins of empires. Beyond the Steppe Frontier rectifies this by exploring the demarcation's remarkable transformati

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"Winner of the Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award, History & Humanities category"
"This is a rich account of one of the worlds longest national borders."---K.E. Stapleton, Choice
"A brilliant cross between a Lonely Planet Guide for the place you never wanted to visit and a serious academic study of life in imperial borderlands. Its an interdisciplinary cocktail of history, politics, economics, sociology and anthropology."---Sergey Radchenko, China Quarterly
"Urbanskys remarkable study manages to embed the history of Sino-Russian international relations into the messy and wavering social reality of a borderland that was also shaped by the cultures, agendas, and material interests of the successive generations of its inhabitants."---N. Pianciola, Slavonic and East European Review
"Beyond the Steppe Frontier is a great read and a very important book for anyone studying Chinese and Russian history, but it is also for students of other border regions. Certain lacunae in presenting a bigger picture are compensated by skillful reconstruction of the processes on the ground. The book makes one want to read the next study."---Camille Neufville, Ab Imperio Quarterly
"Beyond the Steppe Frontier gives life to the Sino-Russian border. [Urbansky] has brilliantly served students, scholars, and history enthusiasts by presenting a compelling, innovative, and well-researched book on the recent Sino-Russian past that reminds us that human interactions make history. This human dimension, which is so central to the volume, is also responsible for making Urbanskys thought-provoking work such an enjoyable read."---Giulia Sciorati, E-International Relations
"Richly detailed. . . . Beyond the Steppe Frontier sheds new light on the history of the Sino-Russian border by its effort to consider the varied perspectives of its inhabitants."---Elizabeth Wishnick, The Middle Ground Journal

Author Bio

Sren Urbansky is a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. He is the author of Kolonialer Wettstreit: Russland, China, Japan und die Ostchinesische Eisenbahn.