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 …

The Sino-Russian border, once the world's longest land border, has received scant attention
in histories about the margins of empires. Beyond the Steppe Frontier rectifies this by …

China and Russia are rising economic and political powers that share thousands of miles of
border. Despite their proximity, their interactions with each other-and with their third …

Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing
through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into …

'Rising China'-the nation, the notion, and the buzzword-sparks dreams and triggers fears.
Borders that were closed during the Cold War era have again become zones of contact and …

From the Great Game to the present, an international cultural and political biography of one
of our most evocative, compelling, and poorly understood narratives of history. The Silk …

This paper addresses early Soviet efforts to secure 'under lock and key'its over-5000-km-
long Central Asian border with Iran, Afghanistan and Xinjiang. The state sought to build …

The Caucasus mountains rise at the intersection of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. A
land of astonishing natural beauty and a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus for …

From the 1890s until the present, Russians have lived and died, worked and played, built
and destroyed in the Chinese Northeast, a region known in all languages—but Chinese—as …