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.
[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.