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Glebov, Sergey: 11 Blagoveshchensk Massacre and Beyond: The Landscape of Violence in the Amur Province in the Spring and Summer of 1900, in Beuerle, Benjamin, Dahlke, Sandra and Renner, Andreas (Eds.): Russia’s North Pacific: Centres and Peripheries, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2023 (Russia and the Asia-Pacific, Volume 1), p. 211–228. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1114.c16385

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06/22/2023

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Sergey Glebov

11 Blagoveshchensk Massacre and Beyond: The Landscape of Violence in the Amur Province in the Spring and Summer of 1900

Abstract This chapter discusses mass violence against Chinese in the valley of the Amur River in the summer of 1900, in particular in the context of settler colonialism and imperial management of populations. Unlike previous studies of the well-known Blagoveshchensk massacre of July 1900, the chapter casts this violence against the background of the debates on the presence of the Chinese in the Russian territory among various segments of imperial bureaucracy and society. It argues that, on the very eve of the violence, significant segments of that society favoured the presence of the Chinese merchants and workers. It was under the impact of the panic caused by the Boxer rebellion that the consensus was broken and mass violence erupted.