Who began the wars between the Jin and Song Empires? (based on materials used in Jurchen studies in Russia)

Who began the wars between the Jin and Song Empires ? (based on materials used in Jurchen studies in Russia). The Jurchen (on Chinese reading – Ruchen, [caractères chinois], Russian -чжурчжэни, Korean – [caractères coréens]) tribes inhabited what is now the south and central part of Russian Far East, North Korea and North and Central China in the eleventh to sixteenth centuries. The Jurchen established several states, the most powerful of which was the Jin Empire (Golden Empire) (1115 -1234), which attained a high cultural level and was the most powerful state in the twelfth century (M. Vorob` ev, 1983 ; E. Shavkunov, 1990). The study of the Jurchen in Russia began in the 1820 -30s. when Nikita Iakovlevich Bichurin (Никита Яковлевич Бичурин), archimandrite Iakinf (архимандрит Иакинф) and Vasilii Pavlovich Vasil’ev (Василий Павлович Васильев) translated several Manchurian, Chinese and Korean texts about the Jin Empire (L. Simonovskaia, 1948 ; V. Nikiforov, 1970 ; V. Miasnikov 1977, 1979). Later Russian scholars continued conducting Jurchen studies and paid considerable attention to relations between the Jurchen and China. The wars between the Jurchen and Song dynasties (1125 -1142) dynasties played a large role in international relations in East Asia. After these wars the Jin Empire become the most powerful state in East Asia. However many scholars have asked the question : who provoked these wars ? Russian and Soviet scholars intensively translated and researched ancient Chinese manuscripts in order to understand the situation at this time. But they didn’t have one opinion about it. If we consider only Chinese materials, we can conclude that the Jurchen began hostilities against the Song Empire, but in the process of comparing these with other sources we can see that probably China provoked war with the Jurchen. Author of work reconsiders and analyses specifics of the relation between both empires before the war, role of leaders between China and Jin in development of the conflict, problem of inner situation in Jurchen state etc.Kim Alexander. Who began the wars between the Jin and Song Empires? (based on materials used in Jurchen studies in Russia). In: Annales d'Université "Valahia" Târgovişte. Section d'Archéologie et d'Histoire, Tome 15, Numéro 2, 2013. pp. 59-66