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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 world's 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. It's an interdisciplinary cocktail of history, politics, economics, sociology and anthropology. ---Sergey Radchenko, China Quarterly Urbansky's 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 big ger picture are compensated by skill ful 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 Urbansky's thought-provoking work such an enjoyable read. ---Giulia Sciorati, E-International Relations

"""Winner of the Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award, History & Humanities category"" ""This is a rich account of one of the world’s 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. It’s an interdisciplinary cocktail of history, politics, economics, sociology and anthropology.""---Sergey Radchenko, China Quarterly ""Urbansky’s 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 Urbansky’s 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"

This is a rich account of one of the world's 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. It's an interdisciplinary cocktail of history, politics, economics, sociology and anthropology. ---Sergey Radchenko, China Quarterly Urbansky's 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

Winner of the Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award, History & Humanities category This is a rich account of one of the world's 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. It's an interdisciplinary cocktail of history, politics, economics, sociology and anthropology. ---Sergey Radchenko, China Quarterly Urbansky's 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 big ger picture are compensated by skill ful 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 Urbansky's thought-provoking work such an enjoyable read. ---Giulia Sciorati, E-International Relations This is the book that so many map-gazers and trans-Manchurian travelers have dreamt of writing, and we are all richer now for Urbansky's broadly researched study. ---Tristan Kenderdine, Journal of Political Science

This is a rich account of one of the world's 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. It's an interdisciplinary cocktail of history, politics, economics, sociology and anthropology. ---Sergey Radchenko, China Quarterly Urbansky's 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 big ger picture are compensated by skill ful 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 Urbansky's thought-provoking work such an enjoyable read. ---Giulia Sciorati, E-International Relations

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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.

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