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03247aam a2200457 i 4500 001 4CEEEE0E8E9811EAB83BD64B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200505011818 008 191101t20202020mauab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019045276 020 $a 0674241851 020 $a 9780674241855 035 $a (OCoLC)1119748863 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d HLS $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-ur--- $a e-ur--- 050 00 $a DS734.97.R8 $b A35 2020 082 00 $a 327.124705109/032 $2 23 100 1 $a Afinogenov, Gregory $e author. 245 10 $a Spies and scholars : $b Chinese secrets and Imperial Russia's quest for world power / $c Gregory Afinogenov. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a 367 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Part I. Muscovite statecraft and hybrid knowledge: Muscovy on the knowledge frontier -- Seeing China through Russian eyes -- Part II. Bureaucrats and their secrets: Secret missions, troublesome missionaries -- Scholarship and expertise at home and abroad -- The caravan as a knowledge bureaucracy -- The commerce of long-distance letters -- Part III. Remaking knowledge on the frontier: Frontier intelligence and the struggle for Inner Asia -- Spies and subversion in Eastern Siberia -- Part IV. Intelligence and sinology in search of world power: Imperial encounters in the North Pacific -- Making Russian sinology in the Age of Napoleon -- Conspiracy and conquest on the Amur. 520 $a "Spies and Scholars explores centuries of Russian spying and scholarship on the Far East. 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 century, 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Espionage, Russian $z China $x History. 650 0 $a Intellectuals $z Russia $x Attitudes. 650 0 $a East and West. 651 0 $a China $x History. $z Russia $x History. 650 7 $a East and West. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901090 650 7 $a Espionage, Russian. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00915416 650 7 $a Intellectuals $x Attitudes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00975800 650 7 $a Study skills. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01136216 651 7 $a China. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 651 7 $a Russia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01207312 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220506014617.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317025627.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4CEEEE0E8E9811EAB83BD64B97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search