Istoki konkurentsii mezhdu russkimi i kitaiskimi poselentsami v nachal’nyi period kolonizatsii Yuzhno-Ussuriiskogo kraia (ser. XIX – nach. XX v).

Abstract

Relationships between the Russian and Chinese settlers after the annexation of Eastern Manchuria (Ussuri Area) by the Russian Empire were uneasy and complex; there were both cooperation and rivalry. Historians studying this issue usually focus on factors related to politics and business. This is a valid approach; yet it fails to explain the fact of certain distrust experienced for over a century by Russians of the Far East toward the Chinese; in opposition, for instance, to the Koreans, for the attitude toward the latter was more tolerant. It is quite possible that there was another important factor involved – that of landscape preferences – which is going to be discussed in the article.