Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: Friendship Test: the “Chineseness” Drama in the Border City Conditions

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Friendship Test: the “Chineseness” Drama in the Border City Conditions

Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2018 11 (11)
Authors: Peshkov, Ivan
Contact information: Peshkov, Ivan: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu 1 Wieniawskiego Str., Poznań, 61–712, Poland;
Keywords: frontier urbanism; “Chineseness”; disputed areas; migration
Abstract: The author uses Manzhouli materials to analyse the role of frontier urbanization in the mass reflection as regards Chinese migration and China’s role in the region. The analysis is based on two series of semi-formalized interviews (in 2013 and 2014) with city residents and tourists from Russia and China. The article shows that the success of cooperation in Siberian regions at the new stage of development requires reconsidering the existing mythologemes of the post-Soviet consciousness, i.e. spatial (periphery is dependent on the centre), border (protection from Chinese migrants is needed) and economic (reliable cooperation is impossible) mythologemes
Pages: 1742-1761
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/109125