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12 - Imperial competition in Eurasia: Russia and China

from Part Three - Large-scale political formations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

Jerry H. Bentley
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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This chapter examines the competition between the imperial Chinese and imperial Russian empires in a world-historical context, and traces how the rules of that game were gradually established over the course of the early modern period. It also explores how each of these empires positioned itself vis-a-vis the rest of the early modern world more generally from about 1600 until the late eighteenth century. The chapter discusses the growth of Qing power which included Taiwan and other territories, and the Russian empire, which was based in Muscovy. Knowledge of new territories and the management of peoples of a variety of ethnicities were central to the growth and maintenance of both the Qing and Russian Empires during this period of intense mutual imperial expansion. One of ways in which the Russian and Qing Empires both competed to build legitimacy and create lasting legacies was through the patronage of arts and the creation of a distinctive literature.
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Print publication year: 2015

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