Datsyshen Vladimir G.,
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia; Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V.P. Astafiev, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, e-mail: e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Chinese Women in the Russian Far East (Second Half of the 19th Century – 1930s)
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2019-3-15
The article is devoted to the problems of history of the female part of the Chinese community in the Russian Far East. Based on the documents stored in various archives of the Russian Federation, and the publication of statistical data, the article restores the number of Chinese women in Russia in the second half of the 19th – first third of the 20th centuries. It has been revealed that the number of Chinese women, both in percentage and in absolute figures, was small, although it exceeded several thousand people. The article raises questions of the Chinese family, social status and professional employment of Chinese women in Russia. Particular attention is paid to the problems of involving Chinese women in the socioeconomic transformations and social and political life of the Soviet Union in the 1920s – early 1930s. Although, due to the existing traditions, Chinese women did not play a significant role in social production and social and political life, the “cultural revolution” that took place in the USSR in the 1920s–1930s destroyed the patriarchal way of life of Chinese families. The paper examines the impact of Stalinist repression on the size and composition of the Chinese community in Russia; shows the problems of Chinese families in the late 1930s; presents the data on the number and personal composition of Chinese defectors from Manchuria, including women, who provided replenishment of the Chinese community in the Soviet Far East.
Publishing: 30/06/2019
How to cite: Datsyshen V.G. Chinese Women in the Russian Far East (Second Half of the 19th Century – 1930s) // Historical Courier, 2019, # 3 (5). Article 15. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2019/ISTKURIER-2019-3-15.pdf
Links: Issue 3 2019
Keywords: Sino-Russian relations; Chinese migrants in Russia; Chinese women; “cultural revolution” in the USSR; political repression; Vladivostok