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Posts from This Journal “1900s” Tag

• Book on Russia-China border relations in history

  Victor Zatsepine, Beyond the Amur: Frontier Encounters between China and Russia, 1850–1930 (2018). A supremely lucid take on a rather complex…

• Conference on the history of the Russian Orthodox Mission in China, March 10–12

  Here is the report of the online conference, on March 10–12, concerned with the history of the Russian Orthodox Mission in China. My talk…

• Polina Tolmacheva, Shanghai (1905)

  This lovely souvenir from 1905 Shanghai popped up on Ebay: Lai Fong Studio 上海 丽芳照相馆, 565 Nanking Road, Shanghai. To the nice and kind Fedor…