Honghuzi

Honghuzi (Chinese: 红胡子, literally "Red Beards") were armed Chinese robbers and bandits in the areas of the eastern Russia-China borderland, comprising southeastern Siberia, the Russian Far East, and Northeast China (then known as Manchuria). The word has been variously transliterated as hong huzi, hong hu zi, hunghutze, hun-hutze, etc. There is also a common transliteration from Russian, khunkhuzy, (and a back-formation for the singular, khunkhuz).