The origins of Chinese anarchism are traceable to the early Chinese Nationalist movement. The predominance in the late 1800s of the Nihilist movement and anarchist communism in Russia, which borders China, was a major source of anarchist influence on the nationalist movements in China. The use of assassination as a tool in the anti-Manchu movement as promoted by groups like the Chinese Assassination Corps was similar to the widespread use of heroic self-sacrifice and assassination by Russian anti-czarist groups like The People's Will and pan-Slavic nationalists like The Black Hand.