Philip Snow China & Russia review, recensie en informatie boek over vier eeuwen conflict en overeenstemming tussen China en Rusland. Op 3 juni 2025 verschijnt het boek over de relatie tussen China en Rusland van de Britse historicus en schrijver. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het geschiedenisboek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.
Philip Snow China & Russia review en recensie
- “An extensively researched and often compelling account, from which we are free to draw conclusions of our own as to where this most consequential of relationships may be taking us.” (Christopher Harding, The Telegraph)
- “Philip Snow offers a comprehensive history of the constantly changing, always tumultuous, and ever complicated interactions between these two countries that share the world’s sixth largest border. This is an incredibly timely book.” (Jerry Lenaburg, New York Journal of Books)
China & Russia
Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord
- Auteur: Philip Snow
- Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Yale University Press
- Verschijnt: 3 juni 2025
- Omvang: 656 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: $ 22,00
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van het boek over de historische verhoudingen tussen China en Rusland
A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present.
Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for four centuries. In addition to a four-thousand-kilometer border, they have periodically shared a common outlook on political and economic affairs. But they are, in essence, profoundly different polities and cultures, and their intermittent alliances have proven difficult and at times even volatile.
Philip Snow provides a full account of the relationship between these two global giants. Looking at politics, religion, economics, and culture, Snow uncovers the deep roots of the two nations’ alignment. We see the shifts in the balance of power, from the wealth and strength of early Qing China to the Tsarist and Soviet ascendancies, and episodes of intense conflict followed by harmony. He looks too at the experiences and opinions of ordinary people, which often vastly differed from those of their governments, and considers how long the countries’ current amicable relationship might endure.
Philip Snow has travelled extensively in Russia and China since the 1960s and has lived in Hong Kong since 1994. An expert in China’s international relations, he is the author of The Star Raft: China’s Encounter with Africa and The Fall of Hong Kong.
