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Interesting that this settlement didn't extend to Outer Manchuria by 1860.

They have here in the US. And in Canada.

Why ban the Han? They could be successfully Russified with enough education and assimilation just like the Sakhalin Koreans could in real life, no?

If Taiping succeeds, are we going to see China industrialize much earlier? And also do things such as birth registrations and censuses on a mass scale much earlier?

@History Learner If Russia wasn't Communist in the 1930s, is there any realistic chance of Russia liberating Manchukuo from Japanese rule and then directly annexing Manchukuo to Russia?

The US already got a lot of immigrants during this time. And FWIW, I was also thinking about the long(er)-run here. Russia could get this territory in the 19th (or early 20th) centuries and only welcome a lot of Chinese immigrants into this territory later on. FWIW, there was a precedent for...

Might the Russians also be welcoming to Chinese immigrants in order to acquire their human capital for themselves?

@Ricardolindo I fixed the quote right now. :)

Edited. Anyway, would it have still been a rust belt right now had it been Russian rather than Chinese? Russia's southern Far East is currently experiencing natural population decline, but nowhere near as badly as core European Russia is:

Southeast China also has few ethnic minorities and yet its TFR is higher: BTW, here is a map showing Russian rule over northern Manchuria up to the present-day: https://archive.ph/9Bxxf

What if, in addition to conquering Outer Manchuria in 1858-1860, Russia would have also conquered Inner Manchuria during this very same time? The logic behind this would be to expand even further and to secure a warm-water port for itself in the Far East. Expanding even further southward would...