Russian children and youth journalism in China (1898-1945)

The article deals with the study of Russian children and youth journalism in China in 1898-1945. On the basis of official documents, correspondence with Russian emigration personalities during that period, their personal records, information obtained through intelligence service, publications for children and youth from national and foreign archive funds, the author studies the reasons of the origin of the first periodicals for children and young people in the Chinese Eastern Railway right-of-way during its construction. The author also studies development conditions of Russian periodicals, published for children and young people during the mass exodus of the Russian Empire citizens after the October revolution in 1917 and the Civil war. The author finds out typological, formal and substantive peculiarities of Russian periodicals for children and youth during the period of the Japanese occupation of China and the existence of the Great Empire of Manchukuo. Periodicals for children and youth, attached to periodicals for grown-ups or published as independent newspapers and magazines, made up a considerable part of Russian journalism market in China. They differ in typological, formal and substantive features. But they are strongly interrelated with classical national children's literature and journalism and regional children's journalism of the Russian Far East in the 19th - early 20th centuries. Newspapers and magazines for Russian children and youth in China reflect the dramatic events in Russian and world history in the 20th century, the cultural, social, political, religious life of Russian people in exile and the complicated integration processes of interaction between Russian and Asian cultures. The study of typological peculiarities of Russian children and youth in China, in-depth research of the subject, problems, axiological dominant ideas of newspapers and magazines, specific features of the professional and creative career of publishers, editors and journalists, ideology, methods of work with young people, analysis of changes in the publishing policy of Russian emigrants depending on the economic, political and sociocultural changes in North-Eastern Asia in the 1920s-1940s allows to enrich the available information about the history of Russian journalism and propel it to the next level, expand knowledge about the political, cultural and economic life of the Russian diaspora in China and study the origins of social upheavals in Russia and Asian-Oceanian countries in the first half of the 20th century.

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