Far Eastern Journal

Far Eastern JournalType| Daily newspaper

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Format| Broadsheet
Founder(s)| Alexander V. Spitsyin
Publisher| Yuandongbao Agency
Editor-in-chief| Alexander V. Spitsyin
Founded| March 14, 1906[1]
Political alignment| Pro-Russia
Language| Traditional Chinese
Ceased publication| March 1, 1921
Headquarters| Harbin
OCLC number| 973416375
Far Eastern Journal

Traditional Chinese| 遠東報
Simplified Chinese| 远东报
| Transcriptions

Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin| Yuǎndōng Bào
Wade–Giles| Yüan3-tung1 Pao4

Far Eastern Journal (Chinese: 遠東報), also known as Yuandongbao[2] or Oriental News[3] or  Far East,[4] was a Chinese-language newspaper distributed in Northern Manchuria and is an important primary source of Sino-Russian relations and Manchurian history in the early twentieth century. This paper, financed by the Tsarist government, managed by Russian sinologists, and written by Chinese editors, reflects the intricacies of Sino-Russian rivalry and cooperation in Northeast Asia, which neither side could have predicted.[5]

Launched by Alexander V. Spitsyin (史弼臣) on March 14, 1906,[6] Far Eastern Journal was the first Chinese-language newspaper published in Northern Manchuria,[7] which became the mouthpiece of the Russian invaders to promote their "Far Eastern policy".[8]

Far Eastern Journal was a tool for Russian propaganda and business development, but not limited to this. Its founder and editor-in-chief Alexander V. Spitsyin advocated a progressive agenda that included mutual cooperation between Russian and Chinese societies.[9]

After the October Revolution, when the Beiyang Government of Republic of China gradually withdrew the rights to the Chinese Eastern Railway, Far Eastern Journal was ordered to stop publishing on March 1, 1921.[10]

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2. ^ Patrick Fuliang Shan (1 April 2016). Taming China's Wilderness: Immigration, Settlement and the Shaping of the Heilongjiang Frontier, 1900-1931. Routledge. pp. 72–. ISBN 978-1-317-04684-4.
3. ^ "The Development of the North Manchuria Frontier, 1900-1931". March 2003. S2CID 154361295. `{{cite web}}`: Missing or empty `|url=` (help)
4. ^ Olʹga Mikhaĭlovna Bakich (2002). Harbin Russian Imprints: Bibliography as History, 1898-1961 : Materials for a Definitive Bibliography. Norman Ross Publishing. pp. 12–. ISBN 978-0-88354-386-3.
5. ^ Dan Ben-Canaan; Frank Grüner; Ines Prodöhl (29 October 2013). Entangled Histories: The Transcultural Past of Northeast China. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 101–. ISBN 978-3-319-02048-8.
6. ^ China News Yearbook. People's Daily Press. 1982. pp. 45–.
7. ^ To the Harbin Station: The Liberal Alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914. Stanford University Press. May 1999. pp. 160–. ISBN 978-0-8047-6405-6.
8. ^ Gazetteer of Harbin City: newspaper, radio and television. Heilongjiang People's Publishing House. 1994. pp. 15–. ISBN 9787207032218.
9. ^ James Carter (30 June 2019). Creating a Chinese Harbin: Nationalism in an International City, 1916–1932. Cornell University Press. pp. 32–. ISBN 978-1-5017-2249-3.
10. ^ Tan Guilian (27 January 2016). The construction and operation of the Chinese Eastern Railway (1896-1917): The development of Russian power in China. Linking Publishing Company. pp. 301–. ISBN 978-957-08-4677-5.