In his unique book, a major domestic specialist in the problems of our relations with China, Professor V.G. Datsyshen examines the development of Russian Chinese studies from 1917 to 1945. We are talking about Chinese studies, which during this period of "wars and revolutions" were conducted as scientists of the "old school," so are those who began to deal with China already in Soviet times, scientists who lived in the USSR, and Russian emigrants, including in China itself. However, this book is not just a dry academic work.