Susanna Soojung Lim: 1 book
China and Japan in the Russian Imagination, 1685-1922
To the Ends of the Orient
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
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...
