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Before starting, let me clarify two things: I'm not S.M. Stirling, and I know that it is impossible for Russia to integrate any han majority area of China, it doesn't matter how far away we put the PoD. Second, I'm not praising russian imperialism or anything like that.

Here is the scenario: The Russian Empire defeats the Qing Dynasty on a alternate war in the 1800s, taking over Manchuria and Xinjiang. For some unspeciefied reason, the empire is able to survive and to defeat both the japanese innfluence in asia and also to take over Korea. After that the Russian empire attacks China again, be a rump Qing or a Republic, or a new dynasty, and defeats their army, occupying a lot of the Han majority areas, maybe everything north of the Yellow River. The rest of China is either left under a rump state, or divided by the other european colonial powers.

Starting from this scenario I ask you: How would this Russian occupied territory look like? The Russian empire managed to fully colonize siberia due it's large population, but now the russians are the ones outnumbered and it seems like a question of time until a new Red Turban rebellion happens and push the russians out, so before this happens, how the chinese culture, economy and the average life in Russian occupied Russia is?
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