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- ISBN
- 9780674241855
- Book Title
- Spies and Scholars : Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia's Quest for World Power
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- History, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Intelligence & Espionage, Asia / General, Regional Studies, Asia / China, Customs & Traditions
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Item Weight
- 26.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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The untold story of how Russian espionage in imperial China shaped the emergence of the Russian Empire as a global power. From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, the Russian Empire made concerted efforts to collect information about China. It bribed Chinese porcelain-makers to give up trade secrets, sent Buddhist monks to Mongolia on intelligence-gathering missions, and trained students at its Orthodox mission in Beijing to spy on their hosts. From diplomatic offices to guard posts on the Chinese frontier, Russians were producing knowledge everywhere, not only at elite institutions like the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. But that information was secret, not destined for wide circulation. Gregory Afinogenov distinguishes between the kinds of knowledge Russia sought over the years and argues that they changed with the shifting aims of the state and its perceived place in the world. In the seventeenth century, Russian bureaucrats were focused on China and the forbidding Siberian frontier. They relied more on spies, including Jesuit scholars stationed in China. In the early nineteenth, the geopolitical challenge shifted to Europe: rivalry with Britain drove the Russians to stake their prestige on public-facing intellectual work, and knowledge of the East was embedded in the academy. None of these institutional configurations was especially effective in delivering strategic or commercial advantages. But various knowledge regimes did have their consequences. Knowledge filtered through Russian espionage and publication found its way to Europe, informing the encounter between China and Western empires. Based on extensive archival research in Russia and beyond, Spies and Scholars breaks down long-accepted assumptions about the connection between knowledge regimes and imperial power and excavates an intellectual legacy largely neglected by historians.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674241851
ISBN-13
9780674241855
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25038417056
Product Key Features
Book Title
Spies and Scholars : Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia's Quest for World Power
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Intelligence & Espionage, Asia / General, Regional Studies, Asia / China, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2020
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
26.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ds734.97.R8a35 2020
Reviews
The book is a major achievement, based on remarkably far-reaching and skilled scholarship...Deserves a wide readership., Details three centuries of Russian attempts to pry information out of China, from the secrets of porcelain-making to Qing policies and inclinations...Afinogenov is a clear writer with a penchant for the interesting story and arresting personality...His focus on information and the people that were involved in gathering it provides a surprisingly effective lense through which to view the history Sino-Russian relations., [ Spies and Scholars ] offers a sophisticated consideration of the meanings of knowledge regimes and reimagines the relationship between knowledge and power. This is quite a feat. On top of that, Afinogenov uses the stories of a sequence of astounding swindlers, rogues, and grifters to propel the grand history of diplomatic, commercial, intellectual, religious, and ideological interactions forward...An engrossing, readable book., An impressive work on multiple levels. Spies and Scholars combines diplomatic history and history of knowledge while focusing on a relationship and period--between the Qing Empire in China and the Romanov Empire in Russia during the eighteenth century--that has not yet received the attention it deserves. One is stunned by how significant the Russian conduit is for most European knowledge about the Chinese at the time. Afinogenov writes engagingly and the book is, in many places, a page-turner., A wonderful book--wide-ranging, creative, richly researched, engagingly written--on a topic general readers will be thrilled to discover and specialists will be stimulated to rethink in new ways. Spies and Scholars is a major contribution to the study of Russia's relations with China and the history of Russia's place in the world during the early imperial era., Draws on never-before-seen material from Russian archives...Afinogenov's research shows that Russian intelligence on China was highly coveted in Europe, granting Moscow greater prestige among European powers., An outstanding study of imperial Russia's centuries-long effort to gather intelligence about Qing China. Under Afinogenov's shrewd gaze, opaque institutions resolve into a galaxy of remarkably colorful characters--diligent scholars and posturing grifters; pious missionaries and their depraved brethren; scheming careerists and timeserving burnouts. The dramatic, crisply paced narrative rests on a foundation of pathbreaking archival research and deep erudition. Essential reading for anyone interested in the worlds of information and imperial knowledge in Russia, China, or Europe., Long before Chinese attempts to pilfer U.S. technologies, the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) was the target of espionage by Western powers eager to probe its boundaries and discover the secrets of its crafts. As Gregory Afinogenov traces in this vivid account, Russia--which frequently traded and clashed with the Qing--was one of the main players in this early great game as it sought the status of a global power.
Copyright Date
2020
Lccn
2019-045276
Dewey Decimal
327.124705109032
Dewey Edition
23
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