https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6255-9756
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21, Ignatievskoe Hwy, Blagoveshchensk, 675027, Russian Federation PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Department of Literature and World Art Culture, Amur State University
Olga E. Tsmykal
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7622-7437
E-mail: olgatsmykal@yandex.ru Tel.: +7 (4162) 23-45-60
21, Ignatievskoe Hwy, Blagoveshchensk, 675027, Russian Federation
PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Literature and World Art Culture, Amur State University
The study was carried out within the framework of the Amur State University grant “The World of Ethnic Cultures in Oriental Studies of the Far Eastern Frontier (Based on Archive Materials)”.
This article presents the results of the field work of scholars from the Center for the Study of Far Eastern Emigration and the Laboratory of Frontier Studies of Amur State University among a Russian-Chinese family (the Kochmaryovs) living in the Russian-Chinese borderland. Modern Russian scholarship takes an interest in the mechanisms of the formation and preservation of Russian ethnic identity and of that of inter-ethnic populations. The Far Eastern frontier is a historical zone of contacts between Russians and representatives of other ethnic groups, the most numerous of which are the Chinese (Han). Russian-Chinese marriages are not uncommon in this territory. How do the descendants of such unions perceive their own ethnocultural affiliation? The oral history of the Kochmaryov family reflects the sociocultural and ethnocultural processes taking place on the Far Eastern frontier in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as well as the specifics of the ethno-cultural identity of two generations of this Russian-Chinese family. The authors of the study conclude that the formation of ethnic identity of Russian Chinese is influenced by a variety of factors, among which, in addition to genetic markers of ethnicity, include the social environment, upbringing, historical and the political situation.
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