Monday, April 24, 5 p.m. at UConn Barnes & Noble at Storrs Center, UConn History professor Victor Zatsepine presents Beyond the Amur: Frontier Encounters Between China and Russia , 1850-1930
Please join the Asian/Asian-American Studies Institute and the Department of History in the launch of Victor Zatsepine's Beyond the Amur (UBC Press) recently published book. Pre-Talk refreshments will be served.
This talk, based on Victor Zatsepine’s recently published book, Beyond the Amur: Frontier Encounters between China and Russia, 1850-1930 (UBC Press, 2017), illuminates the varied social, economic and political contacts that enlivened the borders of the two empires (Qing China and Romanov Russia) and their successor states.
Victor Zatsepine grew up in Samara, Russia, where the Volga River crosses the Trans-Siberian Railway. From 1989 to 1993, he was an exchange student in Beijing, majoring in Modern Chinese, and later working as a researcher for major US media outlets. After finishing his MA at Harvard (1998) and PhD at the University of British Columbia (2006), he returned to Asia, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Peking University (2007), and a Research Assistant Professor at Hong Kong University (2008-2013). While majoring in modern Chinese history, he taught courses on China’s international history, on the Russian state and society, and on social dimensions of the 20th-century wars.
For more information, contact: UConn Barnes & Noble at 860-486-8525