ASSUMPTIONS RANGING FROM THE «CHINESE HOSPITALITY» TO THE«YELLOW THREAT»: COVERING«THE CHINESE MATTER» BYSIBERIAN NEWSPAPERS OVER THE SECOND HALF OF XIX CENTURY

Abstract

The Russian population at all times manifested their con-cern in the neighboring state entities wondering about their political system, society’ organization, cultural tradi-tions. Of course, China being one of the closest and larg-est countries neighboring Russia to the East could not have remained for long beyond the Russian scope of interest and, in particular, for the Siberian public. The author of the paper determined to examine in this paper China and the Chinese population and give a de-scription of the images made upon the publications of the Siberian print media, as well as to reveal and explore preconditions back in history having entailed emersion of the Russian-made "Chinese matter" in the second half of XIX century.