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On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border by Caroline Humphrey, Franck Bille (Hardcover, 2021)
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ISBN-13: 9780674979482, 978-0674979482. Franck Bill?. and Caroline Humphrey have spent years traveling through and studying this important yet forgotten region. Drawing on pioneering fieldwork, they introduce readers to the lifeways, politics, and history of one of the world's most consequential and enigmatic borderlands.
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A pioneering examination of history, current affairs, and daily life along the Russia-China border, one of the world's least understood and most politically charged frontiers. The border between Russia and China winds for 2,600 miles through rivers, swamps, and vast taiga forests. It's a thin line of direct engagement, extraordinary contrasts, frequent tension, and occasional war between two of the world's political giants. Franck Bille and Caroline Humphrey have spent years traveling through and studying this important yet forgotten region. Drawing on pioneering fieldwork, they introduce readers to the lifeways, politics, and history of one of the world's most consequential and enigmatic borderlands. It is telling that, along a border consisting mainly of rivers, there is not a single operating passenger bridge. Two different worlds have emerged. On the Russian side, in territory seized from China in the nineteenth century, defense is prioritized over the economy, leaving dilapidated villages slumbering amid the forests. For its part, the Chinese side is heavily settled and increasingly prosperous and dynamic. Moscow worries about the imbalance, and both governments discourage citizens from interacting. But as Bille and Humphrey show, cross-border connection is a fact of life, whatever distant authorities say. There are marriages, friendships, and sexual encounters. There are joint businesses and underground deals, including no shortage of smuggling. Meanwhile some indigenous peoples, persecuted on both sides, seek to revive their own alternative social groupings that span the border. And Chinese towns make much of their proximity to Europe, building giant Russian dolls and replicas of St. Basil's Cathedral to woo tourists. Surprising and rigorously researched, On the Edge testifies to the rich diversity of an extraordinary world haunted by history and divided by remote political decisions but connected by the ordinary imperatives of daily life.Product Identifiers
PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-139780674979482
eBay Product ID (ePID)15049961671
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Book TitleOn the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border
AuthorCaroline Humphrey, Franck Bille
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
Number of Pages400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height210mm
Item Width140mm
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Title_AuthorFranck Bille, Caroline Humphrey
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
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