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    <title>CHINA AND RUSSIA</title>
    <subTitle>FOUR CENTURIES OF CONFLICT AND CONCORD</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Snow, Philip</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1952-</namePart>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2025</dateIssued>
    <copyrightDate encoding="marc">2023</copyrightDate>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>xxii, 603 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations (some color), maps ;  24 cm</extent>
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  <abstract>"An 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. Looking at politics, religion, economics, and culture, Snow uncovers the deep roots of the two
nations' alignment"--Publisher's description</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Worlds in collision -- The great equilibrium -- The Tsarist supremacy -- Lighthouse of the mind's sea -- Strategy is king -- Rebellion -- Confrontation -- Equilibrium restored? </tableOfContents>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">PHILIP SNOW</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (pages 573-584) and index</note>
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    <topic>Diplomatic relations</topic>
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    <geographic>Russia</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>China</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>China</geographic>
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    <geographic>Russia (Federation)</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>China</geographic>
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    <geographic>China</geographic>
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    <geographic>Russia</geographic>
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    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
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    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Russia (Federation)</geographic>
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    <geographic>China</geographic>
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    <geographic>Russia (Federation)</geographic>
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    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
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  <classification authority="ddc" edition="23">327.47051</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780300281118</identifier>
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