The originality of D. Ershov's book is due to its content. This is the first popular science publication entirely devoted to Honghuzism (Chinese banditry), which flourished in Manchuria and the Russian Far East at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Russian armed forces actively resisted ethnic crime. At various times, such famous personalities as N. Przhevalsky, V. Arsenyev, N. Garin (Mikhailovsky), M. Yankovsky, N. Baikov, A. Denikin were involved in such events. An edition that includes excerpts from original documents of the era, fragments of personal diaries and letters of characters, illustrated with rare photographs, will be of interest to lovers of military history, as well as those wishing to learn more about the history of China and the Russian Far East.