Manzi and Hunghutz in daily life of the Far East (second half of the XIXth century)

The interest of the Russian population to the neighboring state formations, their political system, social organization, cultural traditions was at all times. Of course, one of the nearest and largest neighbors of Russia in the East was China, it could not long remain without interest for Russia and, in particular, for the Siberian public. In this article, it has been decided to study and characterize the problem of mass emergence of the Chinese migrants (Manzi and Hunghutz) in Siberia and the Far East on the Siberian press materials. The article has reflected the problems of interrelations between Manzi and Hunghutz, the Siberian indigenous population with the Chinese settlers, the Russian «civilization providers», the officials with Manzi and Hunghutz.