Международная научная конференция ЮВА в СПбГУ-65

Международная научная конференция, посвященная 65-й годовщине начала изучения языков ЮВА в нашей стране 234 P. E. Moskalev the international relations between the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) and People’s Republic of China (PRC) were especially tense. The majority of the Chinese immigrants historically have been arriv- ing to Thailand and to Vietnam by sea, even though there has always been a land border between China and Vietnam. Majority of immigrants have originated from several southern maritime regions of China. In Thailand most Chinese immigrants have been settling in urban areas, predominantly situated in the central and southern regions of the country, due to the fact that said regions usually have been the most developed ones economically, rich in natural resources and offered convenient access to both the Pacific and the Indian oceans. The most populous Chinese subethnic group in Thailand, at least by the early 1930s, turned out to be the chaozhou or teochew ( 潮州 ) group. The Chinese immi- grants to Vietnam have also preferred to settle in the southern part of the country. It was there, where the majority of the Chinese Overseas have been residing for the better part of the 20 th centuries and during the early 21st century as well. However, the historical prerequisites for this inclination of the Chinese Overseas in Vietnammight be somewhat different from the inclination of their counterparts in Thailand. First of all, the emperors from the Nguyễn feudal house, and later the dynasty, looked favorably upon the Chinese settlers, who came to the South looking for spare arable lands. Secondly, the density of population in southern Vietnam had historically been sparser than in the North of Vietnam, to that should be added the advantage of having an abundant river network, which allowed to set up the development of both trading and agricultural activity rather quickly. In Vietnam, unlike in Thailand, the cantonese or guangdongren ( 广东人 ) came to be the most populous subethnic group of the Chinese people, at least starting from the 1920s. During the first half of the 20 th century both in the Thai society, and in the Vietnamese society certain nationalistic ideas received substantial and wide-spreading support, especially from the latter half of the 1930s. The development of nationalistic rhetoric on the state level in pair with the introduction of the policy of economic protectionism negatively influenced the position of local Chinese people. At the same