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Ethnic Chrysalis is the first book in English to cover the early
modern history of the Orochen, an ethnic group that has for
centuries inhabited areas now belonging to the Russian Federation
and the People's Republic of China. The Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
was a formative period for Orochen identity, and its actions
preserved the Orochen as a separate ethnic group. While
incorporating the Orochen into the imperial political domain
through military conscription and compulsory resource extraction,
the Qing government created two Orochen subgroups that experienced
disparate levels of social and economic autonomy. The use of
"Orochen" as an official modifier by Qing officials forms an early
layer of the chrysalis that embodies various senses of ethnic
identity for people who have been identified, or self-identified,
as Orochen. Since the Qing, the Orochen have continued to cherish
the perception that their Qing-period ancestors were key players in
the defense and economy of northeast China. Tracing the evolution
of Qing policies toward the Orochen along the Chinese-Russian
borderland, Loretta Kim examines how the impact of political
organization in one era can endure in a group's social and cultural
values.
Hong Kong has been a unique society from its establishment as a
political region separate from mainland China in the nineteenth
century under British colonial rule until the present day as a
special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China.
A hub of interregional and international migration, it has been the
temporary and long-term home of people belonging to many racial,
ethnic, and cultural groups. This book examines the evolution of
the community established by clergy and congregants of the Russian
Orthodox Church. This community was first developed in the 1930s
and then revived after a hiatus of over two decades from the 1970s
to the 1990s with the founding of the Orthodox Parish of Apostles
Saints Peter and Paul (OPASPP) at the turn of the twenty-first
century. This study demonstrates how the OPASPP has become a vital
provider of knowledge about Russian language and culture as well as
a religious institution serving both heritage and convert
believers. The community formed by and around the OPASPP is
important to foster Sino-Russian relations based on
individual-to-individual contact and mutual exposure to Chinese and
Russian cultures in a region of China which allows spiritual and
social diversity with minimal political constraints.
Hong Kong has been a unique society from its establishment as a
political region separate from mainland China in the nineteenth
century under British colonial rule until the present day as a
special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. A
hub of interregional and international migration, it has been the
temporary and long-term home of people belonging to many racial,
ethnic, and cultural groups. This book examines the evolution of
the community established by clergy and congregants of the Russian
Orthodox Church. This community was first developed in the 1930s
and then revived after a hiatus of over two decades from the 1970s
to the 1990s with the founding of the Orthodox Parish of Apostles
Saints Peter and Paul (OPASPP) at the turn of the twenty-first
century. This study demonstrates how the OPASPP has become a vital
provider of knowledge about Russian language and culture as well as
a religious institution serving both heritage and convert
believers. The community formed by and around the OPASPP is
important to foster Sino-Russian relations based on
individual-to-individual contact and mutual exposure to Chinese and
Russian cultures in a region of China which allows spiritual and
social diversity with minimal political constraints.
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