- Maps and Illustrations*
- Note on Calendar and Transliteration
- Introduction
- I. Muscovite Statecraft and Hybrid Knowledge
- 1. Muscovy on the Knowledge Frontier
- 2. Seeing China through Russian Eyes
- II. Bureaucrats and Their Secrets
- 3. Secret Missions, Troublesome Missionaries
- 4. Scholarship and Expertise at Home and Abroad
- 5. The Caravan as a Knowledge Bureaucracy
- 6. The Commerce of Long-Distance Letters
- III. Remaking Knowledge on the Frontier
- 7. Frontier Intelligence and the Struggle for Inner Asia
- 8. Spies and Subversion in Eastern Siberia
- IV. Intelligence and Sinology in Search of World Power
- 9. Imperial Encounters in the North Pacific
- 10. Making Russian Sinology in the Age of Napoleon
- 11. Conspiracy and Conquest on the Amur
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Reign Dates
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- * Maps and Illustrations
- 1.1 Eurasia in the 1690s
- 1.2 The Godunov map, 1667
- 3.1 A Russian caravan map of Beijing, 1736
- 3.2 Andrei Kaniaev’s headstone in Beijing, 1755
- 5.1 Qing soldiers, from a caravan journal, 1736
- 5.2 The fortifications at Xuanfu, from a caravan journal, 1736
- 7.1 The Siberian Line frontier in the 1750s
- 8.1 The Mongolian and Manchurian frontier in the 1750s–1760s
- 8.2 Qing Aigun, around 1700
- 8.3 Kiakhta in the 1790s
- 8.4 Eurasia in 1800
- 9.1 The North Pacific, around 1800
- 11.1 The Amur frontier in the 1850s
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