Moscow: Vostochnaya kniga Publ., 2009, 512 p. The subject of the reviewed monograph has been the subject of serious study by Russian scientists in recent years, both in Moscow and in the Far East. And this is not surprising, since it has not only scientific, but also political and applied significance. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Far Eastern region of Russia faces a problem of depopulation. In these circumstances, the presence of a powerful neighbor with an excess population can not but cause alarm among a significant part of the expert community and the political elite, voices began to be heard about the impending "Chinese threat". A. G. Larin's fundamental research deals, perhaps, with all the issues related to Chinese migration in Russia in one way or another. It is enough to list only the headings of the sections of the second, central chapter devoted to this topic: "Chinese" quasi-diaspora": numbers, classes"; "Businessmen"; "Workers"; " Students (a sociological study)"; "Tourists", "Migrants and the law"; "Russian-Chinese relations and Chinese migrants in the assessment of Russians". The author dwells in detail on the number of Chinese migrants, as this issue is often the subject of various speculations. Some, proving the existence of "Chinese demographic expansion", talk about millions of people, others-about hundreds of thousands. According to the author, who refers to the opinions of serious experts, a reliable estimate is considered to be 200-400 thousand, maximum 500 thousand people (p. 149), and this number also includes illegal migrants, i.e. those who are in the territory of the Russian Federation without properly issued documents. At the same time, Chinese migrants in Russia are not currently a diaspora in the true sense of the word, so the author calls the Chinese community a "quasi-diaspora" (p.159), not excluding the possibility of its transformation into a real diaspora in the future. Most of the Chinese people living in Russia tod ... Read more