Sinology and Russian-Chinese interregional cooperation using the example of Siberian regions

The article is devoted to the problems of the relationship between Russian Sinology and Russian-Chinese relations. Despite the great interest of researchers in the problems of interregional cooperation between Russia and China, the issues of the importance and role of Chinese studies for establishing cooperation between the regions of Siberia and China have not been sufficiently studied. The problem is considered on the example of the regions of Siberia at the end of the twentieth century. The historical sources for the study were documents from the collections of the regional archives of Novosibirsk, Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk, as well as materials from the periodical press. Normalization of Soviet-Chinese relations took place in the 1980s. Its feature was the active development of cross-border and interregional relations. By the time of the establishment of direct ties and cooperation between the regions of Siberia and China, local history education existed here only in Chita and Novosibirsk. In addition to this, Irkutsk also had experience in university Chinese studies and teaching Chinese. The first Soviet-Chinese border-level agreement was signed in the Chita region, Novosibirsk already in the mid-1980s. It has become attractive to China in terms of cooperation in various fields, but primarily in the field of science and higher education. The peculiarities of culture and traditions in higher education in the Chita and Novosibirsk, and partly Irkutsk regions, where the experience of Chinese studies education was accumulated and Sinologists were available, made it possible to establish and begin to effectively develop international scientific and cultural contacts with China already at the stage of normalization of Soviet-Chinese relations, while other Siberian regions were able to achieve this after the end of the normalization process.

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