China and Japan in the Russian Imagination, 1685-1922

To the Ends of the Orient

Bibliographic Data

ID19906709
AuthorsSusanna Soojung Lim (corresponding author)
Year2013
Publication date2013-03-05
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueChina and Japan in the Russian Imagination, 1685-1922 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203594506
OpenAlexW4250371398
Open LibraryOL39524139M
ISBN9780203594506
LanguageEN
Citations received8

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 fantasies, but also, conversely, to a deep sense of insecurity regarding Russia’s place in the world, a sense of insecurity which deepened as China and Japan began to modernise in the later nineteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of works by Russian writers and thinkers, Lim sets out how Russian perceptions of China and Japan were formed from Muscovy’s first contacts with China in the late seventeenth century, through to the aftermath of Russia’s defeat by Japan in the early twentieth century

Ancient history · Archaeology · China · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Chinabild · description and travel · Discoveries in geography · discovery and exploration · East asia · foreign relations · Intellectual life · International Relations · Japan · Japanbild · Relations · Russia · russian · Russian Discovery and exploration · Soviet Union

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