ABSTRACT
The boundary between Chinese Manchuria and Russian Siberia was fixed by the Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689. However, as Russian industry and colonization expanded into the Pacific in the late nineteenth century, neighboring Manchuria became an attractive asset. Russia’s defeat in the SinoJapanese War (1894-1895) left Manchuria in Japanese hands, but Japan was soon forced to leave as a result of Russian-organized Western diplomatic pressure.
