Paradoxes of Settler Colonialism in the Russian Far East, 1850-1917

Date(s)： 2024/12/12

Time： 14:30~16:30

Venue： Archives 3rd Conference Hall

Host： Prof. Fu Jia-Chen ( Associate research fellow ,IMH, AS)

Speaker：Prof. Sergey Glebov （ Professor of Russian history at Smith College and Amherst College）

Organizer： Western Learning and China Research Group

Abstract:
The talk explores how the project of settler colonialism in the Russian Far East, on the lands acquired from the Qing Empire in 1858-1860, produced not the expected homogenous Russia but a diverse colonial society. Different populations - Chinese workers and merchants, Russian Cossacks and Ukrainian peasants, Korean settlers and the international mercantile elite constituted a peculiar yet familiar colonial society on the edges of the Russian Empire.