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Entangled Empires

Four Centuries of China - Russia Relations

AvSören Urbansky,Martin Wagner

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

266 kr

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Beskrivning

As expansionist empires, socialist superpowers, and authoritarian regimes, China and Russia have much in common. While many in the West fear the formation of an authoritarian alliance between these two great powers and while Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping call themselves 'good friends', the geopolitical interests of Beijing and Moscow are often at odds with each other. They may be comrades but they don't always march to the same beat.In order to gain a clear understanding of China–Russia relations in the twenty-first century, we need first to understand the long history that brought them to this point. In Entangled Empires Sören Urbansky and Martin Wagner offer an introduction to the 400-year history of these two distant neighbours: from their first official contact in 1618 and the falling out of the two communist regimes under Khrushchev and Mao through to China's response to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.This expertly researched history of China-Russia relations will be essential reading for all students and scholars of Chinese and Russian history and politics and for anyone interested in these countries and their histories and in the changing balance of power in the world today.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-06-26
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Polity Press
ISBN:9781509572595
Översättare:Corke, Catriona

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Sören Urbansky is Professor of East European History at Ruhr University Bochum.Martin Wagner is a historian of Russia and China and holds research positions at Kiel University and Freie Universität Berlin.

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"No one can know how relations between Russia and China will develop in the future. But how changeable and full of surprising twists and turns they have been in the nearly half a millennium since their first encounter, and how they could be again at any time, can be learned from the twelve chapters of this excellently researched and densely written history."Karl Schlögel"Urbansky and Wagner have managed to pull off a remarkable balancing act: their book is source-based, well-researched, and analytically precise – and at the same time written with a narrative lightness that makes it accessible to a broad readership. It shows how history can sharpen our understanding of the present without determining it - and invites us to take a sharper look at the global order of the future."Süddeutsche Zeitung"[Urbansky and Wagner] have not only succeeded in shedding light on a complicated relationship, but also in characterising two countries that appear to function very differently from Western Europe or America."Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung"Sören Urbansky and Martin Wagner have produced a truly outstanding book at just the right time."Portal für Politikwissenschaft

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionBeijing 1618 — Gathering knowledgeNerchinsk 1689 — Setting boundariesAigun 1858 — Expanding empiresHarbin 1898 — Experiencing imperialismShanghai 1921 — Stoking revolutionMoscow 1950 — Pledging friendshipBeijing 1956 — Decoding de-StalinisationDamansky 1969 — Testing boundariesTashkent 1982 — Seeking rapprochementBeijing 1989 — Losing controlShanghai 2001 — Toppling world orderKyiv 2022 — Interpreting warEpilogueAcknowledgementsList of sourcesTimelineList of illustrations and maps