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xThe West has been accused of seeing the East in a hostile and deprecatory light, as the legacy of nineteenth-century European imperialism. In this highly original and controversial book, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye examines Russian thinking about the Orient before the Revolution of 1917. Exploring the writings, poetry, and art of representative individuals including Catherine the Great, Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Borodin, and leading orientologists, Schimmelpenninck argues that the Russian Empire's bi-continental geography, its ambivalent relationship with the rest of Europe, and the complicated nature of its encounter with Asia have all resulted in a variegated and often surprisingly sympathetic understanding of the East among its people.
Author: David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye
ISBN-10: 0300110634
ISBN-13: 9780300110630
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/20/2010
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.10d
By David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye
xDavid Schimmelpenninck van der Oye is professor of Russian history at Brock University in Ontario. He is the author of Toward the Rising Sun: Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan.
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