Download or read book Black Dragon River written by Dominic Ziegler and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Dragon River recounts a personal journey down one of Asia's great rivers. The world's ninth largest river, the Amur serves as a large part of the border between Russia and China. As a crossroads for the great empires of Asia, this area offers Economist journalist Dominic Ziegler a lens with which to examine the societies at Europe's only borderland with East Asia. Part travel writing, part history, it reveals how the long shared history on the Amur has conditioned the way China and Russia behave toward each other.