Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps and Illustrations ix
4. Note on Calendar and Transliteration xi
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I. MUSCOVITE STATECRAFT AND HYBRID KNOWLEDGE
7. 1. Muscovy on the Knowledge Frontier 25
8. 2. Seeing China through Russian Eyes 45
9. PART II. BUREAUCRATS AND THEIR SECRETS
10. 3. Secret Missions, Troublesome Missionaries 67
11. 4. Scholarship and Expertise at Home and Abroad 89
12. 5. The Caravan as a Knowledge Bureaucracy 104
13. 6. The Commerce of Long-Distance Letters 120
14. PART III. REMAKING KNOWLEDGE ON THE FRONTIER
15. 7. Frontier Intelligence and the Struggle for Inner Asia 139
16. 8. Spies and Subversion in Eastern Siberia 159
17. PART IV. INTELLIGENCE AND SINOLOGY in SEARCH of WORLD POWER
18. 9. Imperial Encounters in the North Pacific 185
19. 10. Making Russian Sinology in the Age of Napoleon 210
20. Conclusion 257
21. Appendix: Reign Dates 267
22. Abbreviations 269
23. Notes 271
24. Bibliography 323
25. Acknowledgments 357
26. Index 359