KAZAKHS OF CHINA AND KAZAKHSTAN: NUMBER AND RESETTLEMENT (19-20th century)

Аннотация

The article describes the features of the demographic process of the Kazakh people in Kazakhstan and the formation of the Kazakh population in China in the 19th and 20th centuries on the basis of humanitarian literature of Kazakhstan, Chinese and scientists from the United States, Europe. The number of Kazakh people has undergone changes both in Kazakhstan and abroad, forming a transnational population, especially in China. The study of the demographic situation makes it possible to understand not only the tendency of the social development of the Kazakh people, but also to see the features of the development of the culture of the Kazakh population.The article outlines the stages of changing the number of Kazakh population in China and Kazakhstan, analyzes the statistical material of the censuses of the Russian Empire, Soviet Kazakhstan and the People’s Republic of China.