dc.contributor.author

value: Sťahel, Richard

value: Tomaščíková, Slávka

dc.identifier.citation

value: Sťahel R., Tomaščíková S. Towards the possibility of transforming consumer culture into ecological civilization. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 4, pp. 694–705.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article analyzes the prospects of ecological civilisation in a media-driven society at the
end of the 20th century and the first two decades of the 21st century. The self-identity of the
individual is now formed within the culture-ideology of consumerism, which is defined by
the excessive production and consumption of all kinds of goods and services. Public policies
of this period are shaped by neoliberal principles emphasizing the individuals’ benefit
and their profit. The result of such a culture is an intensification of environmental and social
destruction at the planetary level. Almost unlimited support for the growth of production
and consumption faces the limits of the planetary system, its capacity to provide resources
for continued growth, and to absorb pollution. Consequently, humanity faces the instability
and unpredictability of the Anthropocene. From a philosophical point of view, the global
environmental crisis opens up the problem of justifying regulations restricting the freedom
of unlimited production and consumption. The concept of ecological culture or ecological
civilization which is developing in contemporary China can be considered as the opposite
of the culture-ideology of consumerism. It emerged in China in the mid-1980s as a response
to the Soviet-formulated model of ‘green culture.’ This concept integrates several ‘Western’
concepts of sustainable development, eco-Marxism, ecological democracy, but it also incorporates
several traditional Chinese philosophical concepts and thus can be perceived as part of
the renaissance of traditional Chinese ways of thinking and interpreting the world. The question
is whether the concept of ecological civilization is a real alternative to consumer culture.
If the answer to this question is affirmative, then the possibilities of transforming the culture
of consumption into an ecological civilization analysed in the article should be considered as
trends of sustainable development.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research presented in this work is partially supported by VEGA project 2/0072/21 Tasks of
Political Philosophy in the Context of Anthropocene, VEGA project 1/0447/20 The Global and the
Local in Postmillennial Anglophone Literatures, Cultures and Media both granted by the Ministry of
Education, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, and by Samara National Research University. Slávka
Tomaščíková is a research collaborator in the University of the Balearic Islands’ Research Group in British
and Comparative Cultural Studies (BRICCS).

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 37; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: media-driven society

value: culture-ideology of consumerism

value: environmental devastation

value: social destruction

value: Anthropocene

value: ecological civilization


dc.contributor.author

value: Aleinikov, Andrei V.

value: Sunami, Artem N.

value: Shiraev, Eric

dc.identifier.citation

value: Aleinikov A. V., Sunami A. N., Shiraev E. Risk studies at St. Petersburg State University: From tradition to new challenges. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 4, pp. 657–671.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article examines the thirty-years’ experience in risk studies that has been acquired by
scholars at St. Petersburg State University. The authors analyze the distance travelled from
the first attempts to integrate risk approach into Soviet sociology to current research carried
out at the intersection of conflict studies and risk studies approaches. Using classic research
interpretations of risk and risk perception, such as “risk society” (U. Beck), “cultural theory”
(M. Douglas, A. Wildavsky), “system theory” (N. Luhmann), the authors identify several features
that distinguish the St. Petersburg University approach in risk studies, such as applying
risk theory to the whole social system rather than isolated business or political cases. As an
example of this approach to examining risk, the article presents the results of an all-Russian
survey carried out by project group of St. Petersburg University in order to identify risk-reflections
as a factor in conflict strategy choice. The collected data demonstrates that the integration
of risk and conflict studies offers significant opportunities for highlighting the divergence
of interests between producers and consumers of risks. At the same time, the original research
strategy should facilitate the creation of a realistic model for the evaluation of effective political
risk management. The authors conclude that the present phase of risk research by scholars
at St. Petersburg University is characterized by the consolidation of conflict and risk studies
that makes it possible, on the one hand, to investigate any risk as a conflicting phenomenon
and, on the other hand, to examine risk perception as a special discursive practice which has
a high manipulative potential.

dc.description.sponsorship

value: This work was supported by grant No. 19-18-00115 funded by the Russian Science Foundation.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: risk

value: conflict

value: risk perception

value: risk studies

value: St. Petersburg University

dc.type

value: Article

format: Adobe PDF


dc.contributor.author

value: Danilov, Alexander N.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Danilov A. N. The mystery of development: An unenchanted future. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 4, pp. 598–606.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article examines the actual problems of civilizational development and the mechanisms
for the emergence of a new world. The process of civilizational development is complex,
dynamic, and multivariate. The consumer society, which dominates the world today, is often
considered as the only possible perspective of modern civilization, and its ideals and values
are presented as a role model. It is assumed that the value attitudes of this kind of society
have a number of advantages over all other social and cultural types of organization of social
life and offer endless opportunities for economic development for those regions that accept
them. The problems that arise in the course of implementing the consumer society’s value
attitudes are becoming more and more obvious today. The only question is, are these problems
transient difficulties in the transformation of this type of society in order to triumph
on a global scale, or do they indicate its historical limitations and by no means the unconditional
continuity of its value orientations? The latter issue is all the more important for
societies where this type of organization of socio-economic and cultural life is not organic
and where other prospects for the development of civilization are possible. In the conditions
of global instability, we can observe arising connections and interactions that establish some
kind of new integrity. Here, from a methodological point of view, it is important to define
the positions from which we can consider this integrity. The mechanism itself and the motives
for choosing a new one, the role of the clash of cultures in this action, the conflict of
values, the emergence and rooting of new life meanings merit attention. Therefore, it is important
to identify some general development trends to understand how our future is born
and what history will choose this time.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 37; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: development

value: values

value: value conflict

value: choice methodology

value: new life meanings

value: future


dc.contributor.author

value: Shakhnovich, Marianna M.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Shakhnovich M. M. Presentation of the cult of Christian saints in anti-religious museum exhibitions during the era of the “Great Turn”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 4, pp. 706–717.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article describes the goals, principles and different forms of the presentation of the cult
of saints in the exhibitions of anti-religious and local history museums in the context of the
ideological and cultural tasks of museum construction in the early 1930s. The issue of the
presentation of icons and objects of church worship for anti-religious purposes was extremely
acute: on the one hand, it was impossible to create an exposition about religion without exhibiting
artifacts related to it, on the other, these artifacts were supposed to expose religion. After
the campaign to uncover the “relics”, they were often exhibited in museums for anti-religious
purposes, but this demonstration most often had the opposite effect. The article analyzes the
materials of the discussion on the possibility of using icons and religious objects in anti-religious
exhibitions. The author shows that during the period under study, the contradictions between
the “anti-religious”, who considered interest in religious art as “grave aestheticism” that
strengthened religion, and representatives of the so-called “culturalism” who tried to preserve
and exhibit items of religious culture in museums. Particular attention is paid to studying the
search for a “third way” in resolving the existing conflict between the classical principles of
exhibiting religious art and the new so-called an “anti-religious” approach, which was based
on the comparative study of religions and field anthropological research on popular religiosity.
The main principles of this “third way”, focused on the preservation and display of items
of religious culture, were the rejection of their pietistic interpretation, attention to formal art
analysis, as well as Marxist historical, cultural and sociological analysis.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The article was written with the support of the Russian Science Foundation — DFG grant No. 21-
48-04402.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: cult of saints

value: religious art

value: anti-religious propaganda

value: anti-religious museums

value: the cultural revolution in the USSR


dc.contributor.author

value: Kashuba, Maya T.

value: Smekalova, Tatyana N.

value: Kulkova, Marianna A.

value: Gurov, Eugeny Yu.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kashuba M. T., Smekalova T. N., Kulkova M. A., Gurov E. Yu. New Results of Interdisciplinary Study of Bronze Age Settlements in Northwestern Crimea. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2021, vol. 66, issue 4, рp. 1270–1295.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The research into the settlements on the Tarkhankut peninsula is the most relevant issue of the
Crimean Bronze Age. More than forty new Bronze Age settlements have been discovered by
means of complex interdisciplinary methods (analysis of satellite imagery, GPS routes for land
exploration, magnetic and electromagnetic surveys, excavations). Oval structures were found
on more than twenty new sites using non-invasive methods. By ethnographic similarities, they
were interpreted as “livestock corrals” with stone foundations of walls. To test this hypothesis
and to identify the time of existence, four settlements were excavated. It has been found that
some settlements were repeatedly populated. Basic archaeological material and radiocarbon
dating show that two settlements (Tarkhankut-18 and Tarkhankut-22a) existed in the final period of the Middle Bronze Age. They were left by communities of Babino culture. Based on
the data of geochemical analysis of soil samples taken at a test pit 1 at Tarkhankut-18 settlement,
the main function of this part can be defined as livestock enclosure-corral. Two other
settlements existed in the Late Bronze Age. They were left by communities of Sabatinovka
(Tarkhankut-H2) and Belozerka (Tarkhankut-H8) cultures. “Livestock corrals” are very close
to structures unearthed on the sites of Hospital II and Gorodishche 11 km, which date to the
Middle Bronze Age and are attributed to Kamensk culture of eastern Crimea. The structures of
the Middle and Late Bronze Age found in Crimea are similar to synchronous objects from the
Circumpontic region. It is indicative of the existence of specific non-burial stone architecture
in the world of moving herders.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research in the framework of the scientific
project No. 18-00-00486 (COMFI) “Origin and early evolution of agriculture in the plains and foothills
of the Crimea. Economic models and adaptation strategies of the ancient population to changing natural,
social and political conditions”.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 66; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: Northern Black Sea Coast Region

value: Tarkhankut

value: Middle and Late Bronze Age

value: settlements

value: natural-scientific methods

value: livestock corrals

dc.title

value: Article


title: KIM SEUNG-OK’S STORY A JOURNEY TO MUJIN AND KIM SOO-YONG’S FILM ADAPTATION MIST

dc.contributor.author

value: Tsoy, Inna

dc.description.abstract

value:
This is a story that begins with a meeting of writer Kim Seung-ok and film
director Kim Soo-yong. Their joint work was a kind of collaboration in the experimentation
and the practice of the cultural phenomenon known as the New Beginnings of
the 1960s. What are the special features of the story that Kim Soo-yong came up to an
idea of its adaptation? This story was a fresh departure from the entrenched literary
circles of the 1960s, where the standard literary values were conferred to the realistic representation of the post-Korean War ruins and most authors tended to focus on social
problems and morality. At the same time, there were changes in situation with film
industry in Korea. Both literature and film rushed to embrace the new possibilities of
new beginnings and under Kim Soo-yong’s guidance Korean film of the 1960s entered
the era of “literary film”, novel adaptation became a trend.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
This work was supported by the Core University Program for Korean Studies through the
Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the Korean Studies Promotion Service of the
Academy of Korean Studies (AKS=2016=OLU=2250002).

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference "Issues of Far Eastern Literatures (IFEL 2021)";Volume 1

dc.subject

value: Korean literature

value: Kim Seung-ok

value: Kim Soo-yong

value: A Journey to Mujin

value: Mist

value: film adaptation


title: “INTRODUCTORY PART” OF KOREAN LITERATURE RELATED COURSES AS A MOTIVATIONAL TOOL

dc.contributor.author

value: Guryeva, Anastasia

dc.description.abstract

value:
The issue of teaching Korean literature and motivating students has been
important due to the recent changes in Korean studies students’ expectations (interest
to Korean popular culture and preference to practically oriented subjects). Literature
gradually becomes a discipline demanding new educational approaches and additional
efforts as students tend to doubt its relation to the competences necessary for their
professional success. The paper presents one of the methods elaborated by the author
to make students more motivated and involved in learning Korean literature, i. e., an
“introductory course” opening the main course and gives its outline. It aims at giving a
clear understanding of what the students will achieve, familiarizing the students with
basic specific features of Korean literature relevant for the most of the material to be
studied (time saving factor). The introduction provides the “road map” of the course,
makes the bridges between literature and the targeted professional level (a motivational
tool). This method can be applied to other literatures as well.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
This work was supported by the Core University Program for Korean Studies through the
Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the Korean Studies Promotion Service of the
Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2016-OLU-2250002).

dc.language.iso

value: ru

value: teaching Korean literature

value: teaching methods in Korean studies

value: symbols in Korean literature

value: specifics of East Asian literatures


title: LIU RENHANG AND HERBERT G. WELLS

dc.contributor.author

value: Martynov, Dmitry

dc.description.abstract

value:
Liu Renhang (1885–1938) was known as a Shanghai publicist and propagandist
of Buddhism, vegetarianism and non-violence. Having been educated in Japan, he
could not establish relations with Zhang Xun and Yan Xishan. He made a long journey
to India and Indochina, talked with Rabindranath Tagore. In the 1920s and 1930s, Liu
Renhang published over 30 books, mostly translated from Japanese and English. He
published translations of L. N. Tolstoy’s short stories, books on hydrotherapy and yoga,
and founded the Institute for the Cultivation of Joy in Shanghai (乐天 修养 馆). The main
work of his life was Dongfang Datong Xuean in 6 juan, the creation of which was carried
out in 1918–1924. The treatise was fully published in Shanghai in 1926, and was
reprinted in 1991 and 2014. Its main content was to consider the classical ideals of
Xiaokang and Datong, and the possibility of combining ideals with the realities of the modern world. Liu Renhang believed that the ideal of Datong Confucius and Kang Yuwei
is fully compatible with Buddhist teachings. During the fifth session of the Central
Election Commission of the Kuomintang of the fourth convocation (1934), he tried to
announce at the meeting a petition on the introduction of the principle of Great Unity in
international relations. In 1938, he created the utopian commune Datong in his native
village, and tried to interest Zhou Enlai and Dong Biu with his theories. In the Dongfang
Datong Xuean treatise, Liu Renhang introduced the “history of the future”, which was
influenced by H. G. Wells’ globalist and Fabian ideas. Liu Renhang directly referred to
his novel The War in the Air in conclusion to his own treatise. Like Wells, Liu looked with
pessimism on the prospects of modern mankind, and called for the emergence of a
“modern Genghis Khan”, who would ruin the world, on the ashes of which the sprout of
a new Great Unity would rise.

value: Utopia

value: global peace

value: Great Unity (Datong)

value: Liu Renhang

value: H. G. Wells

dc.title

value: LIU RENHANG AND HERBERT G. WELLS

dc.type

value: Article


title: THE “WAY OF POETRY” (UTA-NO MICHI) IN THE TREATISES OF MASTERS OF “LINKED VERSE”

dc.contributor.author

value: Dyakonova, Elena

dc.description.abstract

value:
The paper analyzes Sasamegoto (Whispered Conversations, 1463–1464), a
treatise by Shinkei, the influential Buddhist poet and thinker of the Muromachi period
(1392–1568). In this treatise on the collaborative poetry of “linked verse” (renga), the
author addresses the category of the “Way” (michi) or the “Way of Poetry” (uta-no michi),
which he interprets on the basis of ancient Chinese philosophers (Confucius and
Lao Tze) and early Japanese authors of Zen school (e. g., Mujū Ichien, who wrote the
Shasekishū — The Collection of Sand and Rocks, 13th century) and even endows it with a
new meaning. In Shinkei’s view, the Way is not only mastery and its perfection. This is a
sum total of many diverse things: the entire corpus of belles-lettres, theoretical treatises,
schools, teachers and disciples, ideal poets, trends, styles, inner discipline, lifestyles,
the past and the present.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference "Issues of Far Eastern Literatures (IFEL 2021)";Volume 1

dc.subject

value: Japanese poetry

value: a treatise оn poetry

value: renga genre (stringed stanzas)

value: Shinkei

value: Sasamegoto (Whispered Conversations)

value: the Way of renga


title: MYTHOPOETICS OF THE FOX SPIRIT IN THE SHORT STORIES OF B. M. YULSKY AND PU SONGLING

dc.contributor.author

value: Lin, Guanqiong

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to the hermeneutic and comparative analysis of the
short story The Fox’s Footprint (1939) by the Russian writer of the Harbin diaspora
B. M. Yulsky. The mystical, mythological, adventure aspects are studied. The image of
the fox spirit in Chinese culture, in particular, in the collection of stories Liao Zhai zhi yi
(17th century) by the Chinese writer Pu Songling, is researched. The emphasis is placed
on the cult of immortal foxes in Manchuria in the 19th — first half of the 20th century.
It is proved that in his prose Yulsky relied on the eastern cultural context and thereby created the authorial frontier mythology, expressing it in the genre of the mystical-adventure
story.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
Работа выполнена при финансовой поддержке Государственного комитета КНР по
управлению фондом обучения за границей.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.subject

value: China

value: fox spirit

value: frontier mythology

value: Harbin diaspora

value: ethnoculture


title: THE AWAKENING AND TRANSFORMATION OF SENSATION IN PU SONGLING’S ILLNESS POETRY

dc.contributor.author

value: Ho, Chi-chu

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article takes Pu Songling’s illness poetry as research subject to dig out
his illness feeling about the five perceptions of the eyes, ears, tongue, and body. From
deeply reviewing his four sensations in his poems, we have found the transformation
of his life from sadness to glee. Due to the disease of his legs around his forty, he had
spent much time lying down on the bed but he had strong feelings of the seasonal
changes through his vision, hearing and touch to create a cold and lonely world around
himself. After his sixty years old, the illness of his teeth had brought more severe transformation
of the feeling of taste and touch. Finally, Pu Songling had accepted all of
these sensations and lived with the painful feelings. The plentiful experience of feeling
of illness and the fading desire for imperial examination had made huge transformation
of Pu Songling’s sensations. The author would review these sensations item by
item and through the real characteristic of describing the illness feelings in his poems
to analyze deeply the emotional connotation of Pu Songling.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Pu Songling

value: illness poetry

value: sensation

value: awakening

value: transformation

dc.title

value: Article


title: A STUDY OF PU SONGLING AND HIS LIAOZHAI ZHIYI IN CHINA IN THE FIRST 20 YEARS OF THE 21ST CENTURY — CENTERING ON THE WORKS PUBLISHED IN THIS PERIOD

dc.contributor.author

value: Miao, Huaiming

dc.description.abstract

value:
In the twenty years of the 21st century, there are more than one hundred
books published about Pu Songling and his Liaozhai zhiyi in China. New changes have
taken place in both the focus and the perspective, and new features have emerged.
Although the focus of the researchers is still on Liaozhai zhiyi, their attention to the author,
version and text has gradually shifted to the study of the book’s cultural elements,
influence and acceptance, and the adaptation and translation of Liaozhai zhiyi has become
a research hotspot. In addition to Liaozhai zhiyi, Liaozhai liqu and Pu Songling’s
other works have been fully studied in this period.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference "Issues of Far Eastern Literatures (IFEL 2021)";Volume 1

dc.subject

value: Liaozhai zhiyi

value: China Mainland

value: new century

value: new literature


title: ETHNOGRAPHIC ALBUM OF QING DYNASTY HUANG QING ZHI GONG TU (IMAGES OF TRIBUTARIES OF THE RULING QING DYNASTY) AS A VALUABLE SOURCE OF INFORMATION ON TAIWANESE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

dc.contributor.author

value: Cherevko, Marina

dc.description.abstract

value:
In the third volume (卷, juan) of an 18th-century woodblock publication Images
of Tributaries of the Ruling Qing Dynasty (Huang Qing zhi gong tu, 皇清职贡图), among
others non-Han ethnic groups, there are thirteen illustrations of Taiwan’s indigenous
peoples, including a brief description of their costumes, disposition, and customs. This
volume contains illustrations of various types of Taiwanese “barbaric” natives that reveal
a great deal about Qing imaginative conception of savagery. They are classified
both by administrative divisions and by categories of civilized (熟番) and uncivilized
(生番) depending on their adoption of Chinese culture. The entries begin with the civilized
savages of Taiwan county, then south to Fengshan county, and then north to Zhuluo
county, Zhanghua county, and finally Danshui sub prefecture. The submitted uncivilized
savages follow again in sequence from south to north. Last are the uncivilized
savages of the inner mountains. The illustrations thus proceed from the most civilized
one through increasing degrees of savagery. In each of the thirteen pictures, the differences
between the savage figures and civilized figures are emphasized. The depictions
of the physical appearances of the civilized and uncivilized savages can demonstrate
their relative levels of civilization. The Qing Dynasty’s ethnographical description, which
recorded the social culture of the historical tribes, now became particularly valuable
because of the lack of a great amount of information on the indigenous tribes of Taiwan.
It is quite necessary to study the society, traditions and cultural features of Taiwanese
indigenous people in different periods, especially after their integration into
the Qing Empire. Huang Qing zhi gong tu is regarded as a very important source for a
detailed investigation of different ethnical types of peoples who inhabited the island of
Taiwan. We have to analyze the history of aboriginal culture alongside Chinese culture
to gain a more rounded insight into the culture and history of Taiwan.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
Исследование выполнено при финансовой поддержке РФФИ в рамках научного проекта № 19-09-00218 («Китайский историко-этнографический памятник “Изображения данников
правящей династии Цин” (“Хуан цин чжи гун ту»”) и его значение в изучении представлений
китайцев о других странах и народах в середине XVIII в.».

dc.language.iso

value: ru

value: Taiwanese Indigenous People

value: Qing Dynasty

value: Ethnographic Description

value: Huang Qing zhi gong tu

value: Concept of Tribute


title: SOURCES OF PU SONGLING’S MINIATURE TALE MAKING ANIMALS

dc.contributor.author

value: Starostina, Aglaia

dc.description.abstract

value:
The reconstruction of the author’s original strategy in the collection Liao Zhai
zhi yi (聊齋誌異) implies the ascertaining of the extent to which the text reflects the
ethnographic and folklore facts contemporary for Pu Songling. The article offers an
attempt of the approach based on the examination of a miniature tale called Making
Animals (Zao chu, 造畜). Researchers see its origins either in the Tang story Third Lady
of Banqiao Bridge (9th century) or in current demonological beliefs. An analysis of the
general structure of the miniature and its lexical features has been conducted. On its
basis, as well as on the basis of the comparison of the text with earlier works about the
transformation of human beings into animals, we conclude that the sources of the tale
were ethnographic information obtained by the author in everyday life, and the story
Third Lady… combined with several widespread folklore motifs.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: Pu Songling

value: Chinese folklore

value: cross-cultural communication

value: demonological beliefs

value: shapeshifting

dc.type

value: Article


title: PETER THE GREAT IN CHINESE JOURNALS OF THE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES

dc.contributor.author

value: Samoylov, Nikolay

value: Maiatskii, Dmitrii

dc.description.abstract

value:
This paper examines a problem of reconstructing the image of the Russian
emperor Peter the Great in works of Chinese publicists, published during the late Qing
period. The issue is poorly studied in Russian sinology. The history of the spread of
information about Peter the Great in the Qing Empire is considered. The main printed
editions containing such information are found out, the features of its content are
analyzed. The general specificity of the perception of the historical figure of Peter the
Great by the Chinese in the 19th — early 20th centuries is established. The reason for
the popularity of Peter the Great is explained. The study is relevant due to the growth
of scientific interest to the problems of intercultural communication both in history and
in the context of the process of globalization.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was funded by RFBR according to the research project No. 20-09-42018 «Peter the
Great and East Asian Countries: Sociocultural Interpretation and Adaptation».

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference "Issues of Far Eastern Literatures (IFEL 2021)";Volume 1

dc.subject

value: Peter I

value: imagology

value: the image of Peter the Great

value: Peter I in China

value: reform movement in China


title: NOVELTY AND VARIETY — ON THE DREAM NOVELS OF STRANGE STORIES FROM A CHINESE STUDIO

dc.contributor.author

value: Zeng, Siyi

dc.description.abstract

value:
There are almost 500 novels included in Pu Songling’s tale collection Strange
Stories from a Chinese Studio, of which more than 70 relate to dreams. However, nearly
30 novels can be called dream novels in a formal sense, such as Mural, Becoming Immortal
and Fengyang Scholar. The main features of dream novels are novelty and variety.
On the basis of inheritance from the previous Chinese dream novels, Pu’s dream
novels have innovated in some ways with new changes or development of the theme.
Further, novelty in artistic forms lies in the bold and innovative narrative techniques.
Also, Pu’s dream novels are more diverse and vary in the content and form which have
broken through the plainness of the previous. The content covers a wide range of topics,
among which society, love and philosophy are the top three. In the form of writing
dreams, there are multiple forms such as whole dreams, intermittent dreams, dreams
within dreams, repeated dreams, daydreams, etc.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio

value: dream novels

value: novelty

value: variety


title: INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY ON THE CREATIVITY OF THE GUANGDONG POET HUANG LIHAI

dc.contributor.author

value: Zeng, Haijin

dc.description.abstract

value:
Huang Lihai is one of the most active contemporary Chinese poets in the past
two decades. His poems are a return to poetry, language and life. In the era of change
and grand discourse dominating the aesthetic interpretation of literature, Huang Lihai’s
poetry and spiritual exploration have obvious implications. His vitality in poetry
creation and poetry activities has an important connection with his Christian faith and
his thought resources. Huang Lihai pays close attention to individual life with heavy
religious feelings, and tries to restore the relationship between man and god, the relationship
between man and man, and the relationship between man and nature in the
post-modern era. Backed by belief, he maintained human dignity and integrity with
poetry, and opened up the divine dimension of poetry writing, which opened up a new
aesthetic dimension for the Chinese contemporary poetry.

dc.subject

value: christianity

value: nature

value: mind

value: religious feelings

value: divine dimension

dc.title

value: Article


title: QIU XIAOLONG’S NOVELS: AMERICAN DETECTIVE STORIES WITH CHINESE ROOTS

dc.contributor.author

value: Mitkina, Evgenia

dc.description.abstract

value:
Qiu Xiaolong is an American writer born in China, but he has been living
in the United States since 1988. He wrote eleven novels about Inspector Chen, who
lives in Shanghai and investigates crimes committed in that city. One of the features of
Qiu Xiaolong’s work is insertions of poetry. Its main character is an educated person,
he writes poetry himself, translates and actively uses the Chinese poetic heritage to
express feelings. The author uses the form of a detective novel to show the various
problems of modern China (the period covered is from the 1990s to the present day).

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dc.subject

value: detective genre

value: detective novel

value: Qiu Xiaolong

value: Chinese detective novel


title: INTERMEDIALITY IN PU SONGLING’S PROSE ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE SHORT STORY PAINTED WALL

dc.contributor.author

value: Ignatenko, Alexander

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article presents a new approach to the analysis of the novel Painted Wall by
Pu Songling (蒲松齡, 1640–1715) based on the method of intermedial analysis. The novel
considered in the article, which is far from the last place in the work of the classic, has
not been considered before in the aspect of intermedia. In this regard, the main purpose
of the article is to analyze the presence of a non-verbal pictorial “language” in a story, to
form an idea of an intermedial-ekphrastic representation as a specific artistic technique
used by Pu Songling. On the basis of the material of the story, a particular case of the
writer using an ecphrastic description of a painted wall, which is based on the principle of highlighting the motive of mystical “revival”, is considered. In the course of the study,
it was possible to find out that the manner of the ecphrastic description of the painting
presented in the novel is built precisely in the aspect of intermedia, that is, from the point
of view of the representation of the non-verbal artistic “language” in verbal discourse.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: Chinese literature

value: Pu Songling

value: painting

value: intermediality

value: ecphrasis


title: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WANG MENG AND THE RUSSIAN LITERATURE — A STUDY OF WANG MENG’S ACCEPTANCE AND VARIATION OF RUSSIAN AND SOVIET LITERATURE IN THE 30 YEARS OF CHINESE CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

dc.contributor.author

value: Zhang, Mengyun

dc.description.abstract

value:
Wang Meng is one of the Chinese writers whose works have been most translated
in Russia, and even the sales of translations of the same work in Russia have
greatly exceeded the sales in China. It can be said that Wang Meng’s influence on Russia
is the same as that of Russian literature on Wang Meng’s life, and the latter is an
indispensable cause of the former. This paper takes the period from the founding of the People’s Republic of China to the late period of 1980s as the timeline, the influence
of Soviet literature on Wang Meng’s writing during the Sino-Soviet period, and the variation
of Wang Meng’s acceptance of Russian and Soviet literature in the new period.
Combined with text analysis, the author explains the literary phenomenon of writer
Wang Meng. First of all, the influence of Soviet literature on Wang Meng’s writing during
the Sino-Soviet period was divided into two parts: one is the “invisible” imitation of Russian
and Soviet literature by contemporary Chinese writers; the other is Wang Meng’s
inheritance and influence of Soviet literature. Among them, the Slavic spirit in Wang
Meng’s works and the “revolutionary” theme in Wang Meng’s novels are the innovations
of this article. In the second, the author separately analyzes three aspects: Wang
Meng’s practice of Bakhtin’s carnivalized poetics, the change from idealism to realism,
and the Orthodox spirit, Lao Zhuang thought and Wang Meng’s literary worldview. According
to the language expression, the author’s creative style and the writers’ literary
thought analysis, author explored Wang Meng’s acceptance and transformation of Soviet
literary theories, literary genres, and Russian national spirit after the 1980s, and
revealed Wang Meng’s reform and innovation in the literary path. Furthermore, from
this perspective, examine the reasons why Wang Meng’s novel creation can stand on its
own, repeatedly innovate, and the literary charm is evergreen.

value: Wang Meng

value: Russia and Soviet Union

value: literary phenomenon

value: influence

value: spirit

dc.type

value: Article


title: THE COMMUNITY OF FOXES

dc.contributor.author

value: Xu, Xingwu

dc.description.abstract

value:
Liao Zhai zhi yi (Strange Stories from a Lonely Studio) and Yue Wei Cao Tang Bi Ji
(The Notes of Yuewei Cottage), two renown Classical Chinese novels of the Qing Dynasty,
contain many stories about foxes. The former contains more than 70 such stories and
the latter contains more than 130. Foxes in these stories vary greatly in terms of their
types. More importantly, a noticeable phenomenon in these stories is that, just like human
beings, foxes’ dwellings can be identified as rural and urban, domestic and wild. In
other words, foxes from different communities bear overt differences concerning their
characters and behaviors. For example, Liao Zhai zhi yi is skilled in delineating rural
foxes with pastoral temperament, who frequently escalate their emotion and lust. On
the other hand, Yue Wei Cao Tang Bi Ji is adept in rendering urban foxes with intellectual
men, who often show their nurturing and wisdom. And this phenomenon reveals the
differing life experience, social statuses and cultural visions of the two authors. Concomitantly,
it also betrays the different folklore sources utilized by the two authors.

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dc.subject

value: Strange Stories from a Lonely Studio

value: The Notes of Yuewei Cottage

value: fox

value: folklore

dc.title

value: THE COMMUNITY OF FOXES


title: PU SONGLING’S LITERARY HERITAGE AND ITS TRANSLATIONS INTO RUSSIAN

dc.contributor.author

value: Storozhuk, Alexander

dc.description.abstract

value:
While speaking of Pu Songling’s (1640–1715) impact on the Chinese literature
one can’t help mentioning his short stories about fox turnskins and other wonders,
known in English as Strange Tales from the Chinese Studio (Liao Zhai zhi yi). Commonly
here the general survey concludes, and the main efforts are directed to analysis of the
author’s pencraft and concealed political implications, since most of the plots are believed
to be not original but adopted from earlier oeuvre. Thus the two major implied
notions can be worded in the following fashion: 1) Strange Tales are the only work by Pu
Songling to be mentioned and 2) they happen to be quite a secondary piece of literature
based on borrowed stories and twisted about to serve the new main objective —
mockery on social and political routine of the author’s present. The chief idea of the
article is to cast a doubt on both of these notions and to show diversity and richness
of Pu Songling’s genres and subjects as well as finding out the basis of these texts’ attractiveness
for readers for more than 300 years. The other goal of the paper is to give a short overview of Pu Songling’s translations into Russian and their influence on the
literary tradition of modern Russian prose. The main focus is put on the difficulties any
translator is to face, on the quest for the optimal form of reproduction of the original’s
peculiarities. Since the language of Pu Songling’s stories is Classical Chinese (wenyan),
the author’s mastership in reproduction of different speech styles including common
vernacular is also to be mentioned and analyzed.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Pu Songling

value: Liao Zhai

value: classical Chinese prose

value: fantastic short stories

value: history and theory of translation


title: COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE NOVEL INVESTITURE OF THE GODS BASED ON WOODBLOCK EDITIONS AND POPULAR PRINTS NIANHUA

dc.contributor.author

value: Zavidovskaia, Ekaterina

value: Maiatskii, Dmitrii

dc.description.abstract

value:
The authors of this paper discuss visual material based on the plot of the
Ming dynasty novel Investiture of the Gods (Fengshen yanyi, 封神演義), formed on the
basis of large corpus of written historical works and Song-Yuan vernacular literature.
Various illustrated woodblock and lithographic editions of the novel (published before
1911) are discussed in chronological order with focus on the special features and artistic
level of their illustrations, whose content and technique are compared. Popular
woodblock prints nianhua from Russian collections are examined in order to trace whether connections with book illustrations exist and what episodes of the novel became
more popular and for what reason. The paper refers to materials stored in prominent
libraries, museums and research centers of Russia, Europe, US and Asia.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was funded by the Russian Fund of the Fundamental Research (RFFI) No. 19-59-
52001 «Commerce, folk beliefs, arts on the traditional Chinese woodblock pictures from little
studied collections of Russia and Taiwan».

value: Investiture of the Gods

value: woodcut block-print

value: lithograph

value: book illustration

value: popular woodblock prints nianhua

dc.type

value: Article


title: SPIRITUAL COMMUNICATION ACROSS TIME AND SPACE — ON THE SUCCESS OF LIAOZHAI STUDY BY V. M. ALEXEYEV

dc.contributor.author

value: Li, Yijin

dc.description.abstract

value:
Russian sinologist V. M. Alexeyev translated and studied Liaozhai according
to the new “artistic requirements” in the Soviet era, that is: 1) the requirement to introduce
the real Chinese language and art works to the Russian and Soviet people and
show his translation talent; 2) the requirement to adapt to the historical culture and
aesthetic psychology of the Russian nation and meet the needs of the Russian people;
3) the requirement to conform to the popular social trend of thought among Russian
humanistic intellectuals at the turn of the 19th–20th century, and to introduce Oriental
wisdom; 4) the requirement to communicate with Pu Songling, an ancient Chinese
writer who has common ground in life experience and social ideal, and to express his
inner feelings and resonance. Alexeyev’s spiritual communication with Pu Songling is
not only the impetus of his whole life to study Liaozhai, but also the secret of his great
success in Liaozhai study.

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value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference "Issues of Far Eastern Literatures (IFEL 2021)";Volume 1

dc.subject

value: Liaozhai

value: V. M. Alexeyev

value: translation


title: THE DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS OF GORKY’S THOUGHTS IN CHINESE LITERATURE OF THE 1930s

dc.contributor.author

value: Yang, Zhiya

dc.description.abstract

value:
Joseph Stalin, as the ruler of the USSR, invited Maxim Gorky (who was living
in Europe at that time) to return home to preach and consolidate socialist realism, and
so socialist realism was established in Russia in the 1930s. Gorky played an important
role in Russian literature during this time, while in China, different writers also introduced
socialist realism through various literary translations of Russian writers, among
which Gorky’s works were the most translated. Gorky advocated for the combination
of realism and romanticism. He described positive heroes in his works and valued humanity.
These thoughts, however, were interpreted in diverse ways by various Chinese
writers, which were split into two teams. One team was represented by Zhou Yang
(周 扬) and Xiao San (萧三), who underlined the political function of literature; the other
team was represented by Hu Feng (胡风) and Mao Dun (茅盾), who were instead in favor
of the fusion of the idea of humanism with socialist realism. This article begins with an
introduction of Gorky’s thought through various literary works translated in the 1930s,
representing the spread of Gorky’s ideas throughout China. The author then focuses on the different interpretations of his thoughts presented by Zhou Yang, Xiao San together
with Hu Feng, and Mao Dun. The purpose of this article is first to elaborate on
the significance of Gorky’s thoughts for Chinese literature in the 1930s, then to analyze
the different interpretations of his thoughts, which serves to explain the reasoning for
different interpretations and the objectives of these Chinese writers who put forward
different perceptions of Gorky’s word. Finally, this article will conclude by analyzing
whose interpretation is closer to Gorky’s original thoughts.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Gorky’s thoughts

value: socialist realism

value: Chinese literature

value: League of Left-Wing Writers


title: UNREACHABLE IDEALS: BETWEEN SATIRE AND UTOPIA IN OTHER WORLDS OF LIAOZHAI ZHIYI

dc.contributor.author

value: Aude, Lucas

dc.description.abstract

value:
Luosha Haishi 羅殺海市 (Lz 132) is a very emblematic tale of Pu Songling’s
(蒲松齡, 1640–1715), as it involves emblematic themes of Liaozhai zhiyi (聊齋誌異): a critical
view of society, an adventure into enchanted lands, and a complex relationship to
an independent, powerful woman. The tale tells about the journey of a man who, after
having been lost at sea, visits two imaginary worlds. Luosha Haishi reveals its originality
when comparing both these places. The first one, the Country of Rakshasas, is a state in
which physical appearance determines one’s social status. This society is a satirical portrayal
mirroring Pu’s vision of Qing China officialdom. Conversely, the City of the Sea, the
character’s second place of stay, is a utopian undersea place where the character knows
immediate success. Luosha Haishi thus makes the bitter statement of the impossibility
to access glory and richness when one does not wish to hide behind appearances, while
for it to occur it would require an ideal world that exists only in imagination.

dc.subject

value: Liaozhai zhiyi

value: other worlds

value: satire

value: utopia

value: imagination


title: THE ROLE OF CONFUCIAN CULTURE TEXTS IN SHAPING THE MORAL IDEAL IN CHINA IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION

dc.contributor.author

value: Ishutina, Yuliya

dc.description.abstract

value:
Globalization, as the form of existence of a consumer community recommended
by Western culture, besides tangible material benefits intended for new members
of the community, is fraught with existential dangers for the existence of distinctive
cultures. The intensive processes of globalization, which include almost all states of
the modern world, are characterized by a specific dialogue between the global culture
and the cultures of traditional communities. They are forced to respond to every globalization
challenge in order to preserve the integrity of the cultural core. The Chinese
continental society successfully solves this problem by referring to the texts of Confucian
culture, which are adapted to the requirements of the time and updated to the
new specifics of Chinese everyday life.

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value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference "Issues of Far Eastern Literatures (IFEL 2021)";Volume 1

dc.subject

value: managed globalization

value: Confucianism

value: Mainland China

value: moral ideals

dc.title

value: Article


title: MILESTONES IN TRANSLATING CHINESE LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN INTO RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

dc.contributor.author

value: Rodionova, Oxana

dc.description.abstract

value:
The purpose of this study is to observe the overall picture of translations
of Chinese literature for children into Russian language from the first editions to the
present day. In addition to compiling a complete chronological list of all Chinese books
translated into Russian from the category of children’s reading, our tasks included identifying
and characterizing the main periods, trends and patterns in the development of
translation and book publishing of Chinese children’s literature in Russian, analyzing
the dynamics of translations in different years, analyzing the activities of translators
who contributed to the development of cultural ties between the two countries, listing
the names of the best illustrators, whose work played an important role in popularizing
Chinese literature for children, identifying the main problems in translation and publication
of children’s Chinese books in Russia at different periods. After studying the
general picture of translations of Chinese literature for children into Russian, as well
as taking into account the nature of historical events and political relations between
China and Russia, we propose to distinguish the following seven periods in translation:
1779–1917; 1918–1949; 1950–1959; 1960–1980; 1981–1991; 1992–2013; since 2014.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Chinese literature

value: children’s literature

value: Soviet Union

value: translation into Russian language

value: publishing


title: THE REVIVAL OF THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL THEATER — KOMEDYA

dc.contributor.author

value: Zabelina, Daria

dc.description.abstract

value:
Komedya, or moro-moro, is a genre of the Philippine national theater that
was flourishing from the second half of the 17th century until the second half of the 19th
century. The genre formation was a part of catholic missioners propaganda activities.
In time, komedya became the most popular dramatic genre in colonial Philippines. The
common features of komedya are: 1) the central theme of komedya is fight between
Christians and Muslims, where Christians always win; 2) actions described in komedya
never take place in the Philippines, but in an exotic country, for instance in Turkey or
in Armenia; 3) Spanish missioners played an important role in the formation of the
genre; 4) komedya is the national theater; 5) komedya is a secular genre as adventures
dominate over the religious motives. In the middle of the 19th century komedya was criticized by the most progressive Filipinos for being extravagant, lacking logic and not
touching upon current Philippine problems. By the beginning of the 20th century komedya
was not staged anymore almost everywhere in the Philippines. Its place was taken
by the other genres. A number of actions to bring komedya back to its former popularity
have been undertaken from the 1970s with the great support of the cultural center
of the Philippines and University of the Philippines. It is important to mention that the
genre is being changed in order to correspond the needs of the modern Philippine
society. For example, the Muslim conflict is not the main topic of the modern Philippine
national play as it contradicts the national policy of the Philippines.

value: komedya

value: theater

value: drama

value: Philippine literature

value: Philippines


title: THE CHRONOTOPE OF ROAD IN THE WORKS OF JIPPENSHA IKKU (TŌKAIDŌCHŪ HIZAKURIGE) AND OKAMOTO KANOKO (TŌKAIDŌ GOJYŪSANTSUGI)

dc.contributor.author

value: Borkina, Anastasia

dc.description.abstract

value:
In the center of the works studied, Tōkaidōchū hizakurige by Jippensha Ikku
and Tōkaidō gojyūsantsugi by Okamoto Kanoko, lies a journey of the characters along
the Tōkaidō road. Despite the fact that the two works are of different genres and are
more than one hundred years apart from each other, the space of the Tōkaidō road
is a common element for them, wherein the ways of expression of the chronotope
of the road varies for both authors. The Tōkaidō road in Ikku’s work is a specific “anti-
world” — a grotesque, carnival dimension, where sensuous pleasures and humor
rule. The dimension here is discrete, the time in this chronotope is linear and “endless”.
In Tōkaidō gojyūsantsugi, in opposite, amidst the Tōkaidō road, a “micro-world” of a
heroine, a journey into the deepest layers of her soul is taking place. With the heroes of
past and present, wandering along the road in reality and in fantasy, the heroine finally
finds her own place in the changing world.

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value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference "Issues of Far Eastern Literatures (IFEL 2021)";Volume 1

value: Tōkaidō road

value: travel literature

value: Jippensha Ikku

value: Okamoto Kanoko

value: chronotope of the road


title: VIETNAMESE WRITER BAO NINH: TALKING ABOUT TIME, WAR AND LITERATURE

dc.contributor.author

value: Sokolov, Anatoly

dc.description.abstract

value:
In the history of world literature, there are many examples of one book writers,
when only one work of the literary heritage of a particular author was famous, in the
shadow of which the rest of his work remains. In Vietnamese literature, this is Bao Ninh,
the author of the novel The Sorrow of War (first released in 1987 under the title The Destiny
of Love), after which his writing life came a long pause. Bao Ninh was born in 1952 in Hanoi.
In 1969, he went to the front and fought for the next six years. After the publication of
his first novel, The Sorrow of War, he became one of the most famous writers at home and
abroad. This book told the real truth about the recent liberation war of the Vietnamese
people. His interviews have been published in national and foreign media, which help to
understand what happened to the famous novelist over the years. They served a certain
compensatory function, allowing Bao Ninh to remain in the national literary process.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: Vietnam

value: literature

value: war

value: Bao Ninh

value: interview

dc.type

value: Article


title: THE FORGOTTEN WAR: WORKS BY N. A. LUKHMANOVA ABOUT MANCHURIA

dc.contributor.author

value: Levitskaia, Tatiana

dc.description.abstract

value:
Nadezhda Lukhmanova (1841–1907) was a novelist, playwright, publicist, lecturer.
Today her name is almost forgotten, but at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries she
was well-known throughout Russia: her artistic and dramatic works were widely in demand,
she gave lectures in the capital and abroad, worked as a journalist in the leading
St. Petersburg newspapers. At the age of 62, she took part in the Russian-Japanese war
as a nurse of the Red Cross and war correspondent (Peterburgskaia gazeta, Yuzhniy Krai).
During her stay in the war and later in Japan, Lukhmanova wrote not only travel notes
and articles for newspapers, but also short plays, stories based on real events (Shaman,
Black stripe, Tree in the Palace of Chizakuin, Li-Tun-Chi), stylization of Chinese and
Japanese fairy tales (The Only Language Clear for a Woman, Human Soul, Typhoon, Golden
Fox). The writer raised a variety of topics: the place and role of women in the war, the
organization of hospitals, unjustified victims of war and the problem of moral choice, as
well as ethnographic sketches devoted to the traditions and mode of life of Manchuria
and Japan. And if its early records resemble ethnographic sketches, filled with wariness towards the local population and a lack of understanding of Chinese customs, then later,
in fairy tales and diary sketches, the sense of guilt before the Chinese people for the
bloody slaughter taking place on their land becomes more clearly apparent. The works
of the writer were undeservedly forgotten for more than a hundred years and are just
beginning their return to literary memory.

dc.subject

value: N. Lukhmanova

value: Japan

value: journalism

value: Manchuria

value: Russo-Japanese war


title: LETTERED WORDS IN CHINESE LITERATURE OF THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY (BASED ON LU XUN’S WORKS)

dc.contributor.author

value: Uryvskaya, Tatiana

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article considers lettered words as a special stylistic device of Lu Xun’s
works, as well as the periodization of his works, built on the principle of changing the
number of used lettered words. The author analyzed the stories included in the collection
“Call to Arms”, relating to the second period of the writer’s work, selected lettered
words of stories, identified the main lexical categories, grammatical and stylistic functions
of the selected vocabulary. The author concluded that the Lu Xun did not use lettered
words in order to name objects in a Western way, he endowed them with special
functions, invested special meaning in them.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference "Issues of Far Eastern Literatures (IFEL 2021)";Volume 1

dc.subject

value: Chinese literature

value: Lu Xun

value: lettered words

value: New Culture Movement

value: baihua


title: THE RESEARCH ON THE SOURCES OF CHINESE MATERIALS IN JAPANESE THE LEGENDS OF TŌNO

dc.contributor.author

value: Liu, Limei

dc.description.abstract

value:
Tono Monogatari, published in 1910, is the pioneering and classic work of
Yanagida Kunio, the father of modern Japanese folklore. Using Tono Monogatari as the
starting point, Yanagida himself created the Japanese folklore, which the Japanese are
proud of. Japanese academic circles have always regarded Tono Monogatari as a record
of the local folk in Tono, Northeast Japan. Even Zhou Zuoren, who first got acquainted
with this book in Japan, regarded it as a work of purely Japanese local studies. This article
first starts with the text of Tono Monogatari, examines the relationship between its
“Chinese style” and Chinese culture, and points out the Chinese cultural influence. On
this basis the author traced the source of certain stories in Tono Monogatari, analyzed
the way and process of these Chinese materials spread to Japan, and the changes that
occurred after they were incorporated into Japanese folklore. By finding out that Tono
Story has derived from many aspects of Chinese culture, it refutes the academic view
that Tono Story is a pure Japanese folk heritage.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Chinese culture

value: folklore

value: oral tradition

value: legend

value: folk custom

dc.title

value: Article


title: THE IMAGE OF THE IDEAL WOMAN IN TANIZAKI JUN’ICHIRŌ’S NOVEL BLUE FLOWER

dc.contributor.author

value: Selimov, Mazay

dc.description.abstract

value:
This paper is about the Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s (1886–1965) experience of creating
a 1920–1950s Japanese woman image inspired by the urban environment of Yokohama
— the city as a mirror of the Western culture in Japan. The writer who had
combined the images of European and Oriental women in order to obtain the architype
of new Japanese woman in his early works no longer wanted to do this. He began
to portray a new-age woman — his new ideal, which writer observed in Hollywood
movies. Tanizaki Jun’ichirō anticipated the appearance of Modan gāru on the Japanese
stage, women who became objects of public attention because they followed Western
fashion trends and lifestyle. Precisely this kind of woman occupied Tanizaki’s mind for the first half of the 1920s. The novel Blue Flower (Aoi hana, 青い花, 1921) was the first
Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s work, in which we meet the modan garu, a new type of Japanese
woman of the first half of the XX c. In this novel, he presents the West as a source of
femininity, and western attributes now as being able to change both the exterior and
interior of a human. Blue Flower is the result of Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s research of these
new women in his quest for their physical perfection.

dc.subject

value: Japanese literature

value: Tanizaki Jun’ichirō

value: Blue Flower

value: female beauty in Japan

value: the new Japanese woman in early 20th century


title: UNDERSTANDING OF RUSSIAN AND SOVIET LITERATURE DURING THE “CULTURAL REVOLUTION” IN CHINA

dc.contributor.author

value: Dong, Xiao

dc.description.abstract

value:
Russian and Soviet literature had a special experience in China during the
“Cultural Revolution”. It was fiercely criticized by the Chinese critical circle at that time,
and this criticism embodies the unique characteristics of “skewness and rightness”. At
the same time, although there is a sharp contrast between the fierce criticism of Russian
and Soviet literature during the “Cultural Revolution” period and the worship of it
during the “seventeen years”, the criticism still reveals a similar literary concept with
the “seventeen years” behind it, and also has some secret connection with the mainstream literature of the Soviet Union. This criticism of Russian Soviet literature during
the “Cultural Revolution” was inevitably related to the cold reception of Russian Soviet
literature in contemporary China.

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value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference "Issues of Far Eastern Literatures (IFEL 2021)";Volume 1

value: Russian and Soviet literature

value: Cultural Revolution

value: Accidental hit

value: political utilitarianism


title: GHOST FROM THE FUTURE: HONG KONG TEMPORALITIES IN THE FILM ROUGE

dc.contributor.author

value: Liu, Yuqing

dc.description.abstract

value:
This paper explores how the film Rouge (1987) adapts and transforms traditional
ghost narratives and how the cinematic anxiety of time is associated with the
countdown temporality of Hong Kong in the 1980s. I argue that Rouge transforms two
narrative structures of traditional Chinese literature — Caizi-jiaren (scholar-beauty) and
the “historical ghost tale” — to foreground the particular temporality of Hong Kong.
Firstly, the returning of the female ghost and her failure in pursuit of love intensifies
the conflict between the modern linear time and the cosmological ghostly time and poignantly
manifests the impossibility of a fifty-year unchanged commitment. Secondly,
unlike traditional “historical ghost tales” in which ghosts were called back by traumas of
the collapse of old dynasties, the revenant of the heroin in this film returns to the living
world for the prearranged trauma of the future, due to the particular temporality of
countdown Hong Kong has confronted since 1982. The countdown forced Hong Kong
to enter a circular time and to experience the prearranged calamity in the future. Thus,
I contend that this film rehearses a demise of Hong Kong, which exacerbates, rather
than alleviates, the anxiety and pain associated with the traumatic experience.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: Rouge

value: Temporality

value: Countdown

value: Hong Kong

value: Ghost


title: THE NORMAL AND THE EXCEPTIONAL: A COMPARISON OF PU SONGLING’S AND MO YAN’S SURREAL WORLDS

dc.contributor.author

value: Schiele, Alexandre

dc.description.abstract

value:
From a comparison of the surreal worlds of Pu Songling and Mo Yan in their
respective auctorial context, this paper argues that although Pu Songling’s short stories
integrate surreal elements, contrary to the accepted typology of genres, they fall into
realistic and not speculative fiction because the worldview of Imperial China in which
he lived not only accepted the supernatural as real, but as foundational to the traditional
order. By comparison, Mo Yan’s supernatural stories partly fall within supernatural
literature, because post-1949 China espoused a scientific worldview which banishes
the supernatural. On a second level, however, both Pu Songling’s and Mo Yan’s surreal
fictions are political satires of their times. Yet, even on this point they diverge. While Pu
Songling articulates the social and political criticism of his present to surreal elements,
Mo Yan casts the surreal as a stand-in for the exceptional situations of his recent past
which are the object of his criticisms.

value: Pu Songling

value: Mo Yan

value: Supernatural

value: Surreal

value: Normal

value: Exceptional

dc.type

value: Article


title: CURRENT PROBLEMS IN THE STUDY OF CONFUCIAN CLASSICS (BASED ON THE TEXT OF LI JI)

dc.contributor.author

value: Keidun, Irina

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article attempts to analyze the canonical Confucian treatise Li Ji from the
philosophical and religious studies’ perspective. Utilizing the information contained in
the text, this article reconstructs the content of the ancient Chinese rituals of the life
cycle — initiation, marriage, funeral and mourning, all of which served to trace and
formalize changes in a person’s social status, securing his transition to a new position.
Structure, functions and symbolism of ancient Chinese transitional ceremonies
generally correspond with the theory of rituals of passage developed by the French
researcher A. van Gennep. The results of this work demonstrate that the treatise may
in the future become the object of close attention of researchers from various scientific
branches, analyzing the panhuman universals of spiritual development.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference "Issues of Far Eastern Literatures (IFEL 2021)";Volume 1

dc.subject

value: Ancient China

value: Confucian Canon

value: Li Ji

value: life cycle rituals

value: rites of passage


title: “A LOST TREASURE”: ON FOLK ORIGINS OF THE VERSES OF CHU (CHUCI)

dc.contributor.author

value: Kravtsova, Marina

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article is focused on analysis of the hypothesis of the local song folklore
origins of the famous poetic phenomenon chuci (elegies/songs of Chu) that represents
the literary heritage of the southern (Yangtze Basin) region of the Ancient China (the
Zhou epoch, 11th–3rd centuries B. C.) and is associated with the emergence of the Chinese
poetry. Although today the thesis about the folklore origins of chuci, or rather of
the poetic pieces presented by the Chuci (Verses/Elegies of Chu, Songs of the South) collection,
is generally accepted, the author argues that, first, during the 1st–7th centuries
A. D. the chuci poetry was stable considered within the Chinese book knowledge to be
created by exclusively the literary genius of Qu Yuan (4th–3rd centuries B. C.), the great
poet of the Chu Kingdom (11th–3rd centuries B. C.). Secondly, the views on chuci as an
autochthonous (“southern”) poetic tradition dating back to the local folk art emerged
in the 12th–13th centuries and finally established itself in the Chinese literature studies
of the first third of the 20th century, all these under the influence of the ideological
processes, caused by synchronic historical and political events. Thirdly, although the
existence of developed song-poetic folklore in Chu Kingdom seems quite permissible,
it for some reason remained out of fixation by that day written sources, including transmitted
texts and archaeological materials (epigraphic inscription and excavated manuscripts).
Therefore, almost nothing is known as a matter of fact of the hypothetic Chu
song folklore what makes it impossible to recognize its true influence on origins and
further on evolution of the chuci tradition.

dc.description.sponsorship

value: Исследование осуществлено при финансовой поддержке РФФИ, проект № 19-012-00121.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Chu Kingdom

value: poetry

value: verse of Chu

value: chuci collection

value: Qu Yuan

value: Chu song and poetic folklore


title: THE INTERNET NOVEL IN MAINLAND CHINA: A NEW TREND IN CHINESE LITERATURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

dc.contributor.author

value: Wan, Fang

dc.description.abstract

value:
Internet novel has formed a new trend in Chinese literature, changing the
literary and cultural landscape of mainland China in the 21st century. This essay takes
The Legend in Pavilion (小樓傳說) and A Devil Sold for One Coin per Pound (一銀幣一磅的
惡魔) as examples to explore how Chinese internet novel expands the dynamic between
author, text, and reader by offering a space for readers to influence and shape
the texts the author is creating on certain websites. Through hyperlinks, comments,
and polls, the readers of The Legend in Pavilion can actually take part in the creation of
this novel. A Devil Sold for One Coin per Pound shows another way of readers’ participation.
Like video games, this novel provides readers various clear choices. During the
reading process, readers can control the development of the novel by choosing from
those options. Instead of arranging all of the elements in a fixed linear pattern, internet
novel is presented in a non-linear and interactive form.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.subject

value: Chinese Internet Novel

value: 21st Century

value: Participatory Reading

value: Gamification

value: Genre

dc.title

value: Article


title: CONTEMPORARY CHINESE WRITERS AND LIAO ZHAI ZHI YI — USING THE EXAMPLE OF SUN LI, WANG ZENGQI AND GAO XIAOSHENG

dc.contributor.author

value: Wang, Binbin

dc.description.abstract

value:
Since Mo Yan received the Nobel prize and also because he said many times
that he considers Pu Songling his teacher, and he on more than one occasion reiterated
that he was heavily influenced by Liao Zhai zhi yi, literary connections between Mo
Yan and Pu Songling have been discussed by many literary scholars and critics. However, when it comes to contemporary literati, the scope of writers influenced by Liao
Zhai zhi yi and those who revere this masterpiece is in no way limited by Mo Yan only.
In such dimensions as literary style, approach to subject selection, character depiction
and others, Liao Zhai zhi yi in one way or another exerted an influence over other
writers. This paper deals with the influence exerted by Liao Zhai zhi yi on the linguistic
consciousness, moral concepts and character depiction in contemporary Chinese
literature, using Sun Li, Wang Zengqi and Gao Xiaosheng as examples. The clear and
polished writing of Liao Zhai zhi yi, being exquisitely melodic throughout, the praise it
gives to the persons who put morals and friendship before material possessions and
are unwilling to forgo them even faced with the choice between life and death as well as
the depiction of female characters — all of this served as an example and an inspiration
for Sun Li, Wang Zengqi and Gao Xiaosheng.

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value: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference "Issues of Far Eastern Literatures (IFEL 2021)";Volume 1

dc.subject

value: Liao Zhai zhi yi

value: Sun Li

value: Wang Zengqi

value: Gao Xiaosheng


title: A HALF BOTTLE OF VINEGAR OR ZHANG THE DRAUGHTSMAN’S LITERARY OPINIONS

dc.contributor.author

value: Vinogradova, Tatiana

dc.description.abstract

value:
“A half bottle of vinegar” is a Chinese idiom academician Vasily Alekseev
characterized
the artists of Chinese popular prints nianhua. As a rule, these artisans
were half-educated people without full complex of classical Confucian knowledge.
These people were the conductors of ideas and images of high culture to the broad
masses of consumers of folk pictures. One of them “the Draughtsman” Zhang Haoru
(章浩如, 1870–?) helped V. M. Alekseev to disassemble his enormous collection of
popular prints. We have at our disposal many comments belong to the Zhang Hao-ru’s
brush, preserved at the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
branch (Stock 820, inventory 1) and we can get an idea of his education level and literary
preferences.

dc.description.sponsorship

value: Статья подготовлена при поддержке гранта КИАС РФФИ 19-59-52001 МНТ_а «Торговля, народные верования, искусство и культура на традиционной ксилографической картине Китая из малоисследованных коллекций России и Тайваня».

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: Vasily Mikhailovich Alekseev

value: Chinese popular prints nianhua

value: comments to nianhua

value: St. Petersburg branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences

value: Zhang Haoru xiansheng


title: CATEGORY OF 混 (HÙN, “PRIMORDIAL CHAOS”) IN FOUR GREAT CLASSICAL NOVELS

dc.contributor.author

value: Klimovich, Victoria

dc.description.abstract

value:
混 (hùn, “primordial chaos”) is one of the most complex and multi-aspect
concepts in Chinese philosophy. This category was fully developed in the Taoist texts,
dating back to the 4th–3th centuries BC. Taoist philosophers interpreted the concept
not just as the core of cosmogony, but also as the basis of all ethical and socio-political
concepts. In Taoist texts all the meanings are distinctly positive and opposed to the
concept of 乱 (luàn, “disorder”), which means destruction of the original chaotic (i. e.,
holistic) nature of the universe. To determine how this concept transpire in traditional
Chinese culture and to what extent it is still considered to be positive, the author analyzed
the usage of the word in the four great classical novels: Water Margin, Romance of
the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West and Dream of the Red Chamber.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

value: primordial chaos

value: taoist philosophy

value: classic Chinese novels

value: Xuanxue

value: Neo-Confucianismtaoist philosophy

value: Neo-Confucianism

dc.type

value: Article


title: SHIBA RYOTARO AND HIS CONCEPT OF NOMADIC CIVILIZATION IN MONGOLIA

dc.contributor.author

value: Malashevskaya, Maria

dc.description.abstract

value:
The paper deals with analysis of concept of history of nomadic civilization
in the steppes of Mongolia, appeared in the essays by prominent Japanese novelist
Shiba Ryotaro. This approach made great impact towards the popular view of Asian
and Eurasian history among Japanese readers. The author aims to identify, analyze and
present main ideas of Shiba’s concept of history of nomadic civilization in Mongolia and
Great Steppe. Sources for analysis of these ideas are two essays and travel notes by
novelist, Mongolian Travel Notes (1974) and Steppe Notes (1992). The article shows ties
between civilizational approach of A. Toynbee and concept by Shiba Ryotaro in relation
to nomadic civilizations and demonstrates essential features of its development. Texts
by Shiba Ryotaro present a new understanding of nature of Asia within the Japanese
social and historical thought in the post-war period.

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value: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference "Issues of Far Eastern Literatures (IFEL 2021)";Volume 1

dc.subject

value: nomadic civilization

value: Mongolia

value: Shiba Ryotaro

value: Steppe Notes


title: ON THE SPREAD OF BUDDHIST STORIES IN FOLK MILIEU: THE PRECIOUS SCROLL OF GUANYIN WITH A FISH BASKET IN RECITATION PRACTICE OF THE CHANGSHU AREA OF JIANGSU, CHINA

dc.contributor.author

value: Berezkin, Rostislav

dc.description.abstract

value:
The story of Bodhisattva Guanyin with a Fish Basket (or Fishmonger Guanyin)
already has attracted attention of scholars of Chinese literature and popular beliefs,
as it represents an indigenous modification of the Indian Buddhist deity; but until now
scholars in different countries mainly have studied textual variants of this story dating
back to the late 19th — early 20th centuries. At the same time, precious scroll devoted
to the story of Guanyin with a Fish Basket is still recited by local performers in the city
of Changshu and its vicinity now. The analysis of the Precious Scroll of Guanyin with a
Fish Basket in the context of recitation practice of “telling scriptures” in Changshu allows
demonstrating the special features of functioning of a Chinese Buddhist narrative in
the folk ritual practice. In this variant of a precious scroll, the story of Bodhisattva Guanyin
converting the inhabitants of a fishermen village is combined with the veneration
of local tutelary deities, placed on the “family altars”; thus representing the secularized
form of Chinese Buddhist devotion.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: baojuan (precious scrolls)

value: telling scriptures

value: Chinese prosimetric literature

value: Bodhisattva Guanyin

value: Chinese buddhist literature


title: LETTER TO WU JIZHONG BY CAO ZHI — A PANEGYRIC OR A PAMPHLET?

dc.contributor.author

value: Stroganova, Nina

dc.description.abstract

value:
The focus of the article, Letter to Wu Jizhong (Yu Wu Jizhong shu, 与吴季重书),
a sample of Jian’an epistolography, is a message sent by Cao Zhi (曹植, 192–232) to his
friend Wu Zhi (吴质). The article contains the translation and analysis of Letter to Wu
Jizhong, which has not been studied in Russian sinology yet. Letter to Wu Jizhong is to be considered only in the light of Letter in response to Cao Zhi by Wu Zhi (Da Dong’e wang
shu, 答东阿王书). Letter to Wu Jizhong is analyzed as an oratorical speech in writing. The
analysis is based on classical rhetorical theories, mainly on Aristotle’s theory of rhetoric.
In each of the 3 parts of the Letter… we highlight its subject, theme, problem, thesis,
goal (elements of the Inventio). The oratory of the Letter… is epideictic and deliberative.
“The topos of Size”, i. e., exaggeration, contributes to the grotesque-satirical effect.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.subject

value: Jian’an

value: Cao Zhi

value: Wu Zhi

value: epistolography


title: THE MAN IMAGE IN OKAMOTO KANOKO’S FICTION

dc.contributor.author

value: Khovanchuk, Olga

value: Breslavets, Tatiana

dc.description.abstract

value:
The paper is devoted to the peculiarities of the man image in Japanese woman
writer Okamoto Kanoko’s fiction. As a rule, the hero-lover (victim) has not the indispensable
vitality and innate power. He is sickly or weak-minded. His fragility and passivity
are contrasted with heroine’s (vampire) strength and assertiveness. The demonic
motif is ubiquitous in Okamoto Kanoko’s stories. In other side, the man image is not a
“lover”, but a “son”, which cult was set in her works. In certain cases heroine’s attitude
to a hero leads to the erotic conflict.

dc.description.sponsorship

value: The article is written with the support of the Japan Foundation.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference "Issues of Far Eastern Literatures (IFEL 2021)";Volume 1

dc.subject

value: Japanese women literature

value: Okamoto Kanoko

dc.title

value: Article


title: THE PECULIARITY OF THE COMPOSITION AND ARTISTIC SPEECH OF PROSE OF YANG WON SIK

dc.contributor.author

value: Ten, Yuliya

dc.description.abstract

value:
The prosaic works of Yang Won Sik (1932–2006), a representative of Korean
literature in Kazakhstan, are considered for the first time. After the Korean War, the
DPRK leadership sent talented youth to Moscow to get an education. The New Republic
needed qualified specialists to build a new state. Yang Won Sik graduates from VGIK in
1958 and stays in the USSR. He devoted many years to the life of the Kazakhfilm Studio
and the republican newspaper Kore Ilbo. Yang Won Sik was a member of the Union of
Writers of the USSR (1990) and Kazakhstan, a member of the Union of Cinematographers
of the USSR, a member of the international PEN Club. The prose by Yang Won
Sik written in a dialect of the province of Hamken conveys the historical “time — space”
through the system of images and, in particular, verbal images. The author introduces
the reader to the panorama of events of the beginning of the last century to the
present. In his works of the 1950s and 1980s, Yang Won Sik uses Koryo mar in artistic
speech. In the stories describing the events of the early twentieth century, the language
of the Far Eastern Koreans is different. Each historical period creates its own words that
disappear with the era.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: system of verbal images

value: compositional device

value: contrast

value: Koryo saram

value: Koryo mar


title: THE JEONG GAM NOK PROPHECY BOOK AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE KOREAN HISTORY IN THE LATE JOSEON PERIOD

dc.contributor.author

value: Chesnokova, Nataliya

dc.description.abstract

value:
The Jeong Gam’s Writings (鄭鑑錄, Jeong Gam nok) is a famous Korean prophecy
book that appeared in the late Joseon period (1392–1897) yet gained its popularity by
the end of the 19th century and is still well-known by most of Korean people. The main
idea of the book is expressed through a dialogue mundap 問答 between two scholars:
Jeong Gam (鄭鑑) and Yi Shim (李沁). It is not known whether they were real or imagined
characters, or prototypes of any real historical figures. The Writings also include prophecies
made by other scholars who lived earlier. There have been several texts written
either in hanmun or in ǒnmun. In the Veritable Records of the Joseon dynasty (朝鮮王朝
實錄, Joseon wangjo sillok) it is first mentioned in 1782. The article is aimed to introduce
the book to Russian audience focusing on its importance and its influence on the Korean
history in the late 18th–19th century, namely mass uprisings.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
Публикация подготовлена в ходе проведения исследования № 20-01-068 в рамках
Программы «Научный фонд Национального исследовательского университета “Высшая
школа экономики” (НИУ ВШЭ)» в 2020–2021 гг. и в рамках государственной поддержки
ведущих университетов Российской Федерации «5–100».

dc.language.iso

value: ru

value: Joseon

value: prophecy

value: Jeong Gam’s Writings

value: Jeong Gam nok

value: mass uprising


title: THE FIRST INFORMATION ABOUT THE YI-JING IN RUSSIA

dc.contributor.author

value: Kobzev, Artem

dc.description.abstract

value:
The first information in Russia about the Yi-jing (易經, Canon of Changes) was
published by the first Russian sinologist, German historian and philologist-polyglot
G. S. Bayer in the two-volume Museum Sinicum (St. Petersburg, 1730) in Latin. In Russian,
the primary information about Yi-jing became available to the reader half a century
later thanks to the coryphaeus of Russian sinology of the 18th century A. L. Leontiev.
In 1782, he published an illustrated and commented translation of a fragment
from Yi-jing (named Convenient Base) as an appendix to his translation of the Manchu
text of the Statutes of the Great Qing (大清會典, Dai-Qing hui-dian). A. L. Leontiev called the
French abbot, who visited St. Petersburg in 1769, the initiator of his appeal to the Yi-jing,
but did not indicate his name. P. E. Skachkov after V. S. Kolokolov decided that he was the
famous French Jesuit missionary and versatile scientist A. Gaubil. However, he died ten years earlier. Most likely the interlocutor of A. L. Leontiev was a well-known theologian
and economist-physiocrat, French abbot N. Baudeau, who held confidential negotiations
with Catherine II in 1769 in St. Petersburg about the situation in Poland. The secrecy of
this mission on the eve of the first partition of Poland fully explains the concealment of
his name in 1782, when he was still alive and brewing the second partition. Apparently,
a look at the Yi-jing of the French enlighteners and physiocrats, reported by N. Baudeau
to A. L. Leontiev, prompted him to link the ancient canon with Statutes of the Great Qing.

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value: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference "Issues of Far Eastern Literatures (IFEL 2021)";Volume 1

value: Yi-jing

value: I-ching

value: Zhou-yi

value: Yi-king

value: Canon of Changes

value: Book of Changes

value: G. S. Bayer

value: A. L. Leontiev

value: N. Baudeau

value: Fu-si

value: Seth

value: He-tu

value: Dai-Qing hui-dian

value: Statutes of the Great Qing

dc.type

value: Article


title: FOLK STORIES AND SONGS ABOUT THE BURYAT USURERS IN THE OLD MONGOLIAN SCRIPT ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE MANUSCRIPT OF DASHI BUBEEV

dc.contributor.author

value: Van, Irina

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article reveals the peculiarities of folk stories and songs about some Buryat
usurers who lived in the Aginsky steppes of Zabaikalye in the second half of the 19th —
first quarter of the 20th centuries, recorded by the Buryat chronicler Dashi Bubeev from
the old residents of that time. A particular scientific interest lies in the fact that a previously
unknown handwritten source in the old Mongolian script Brief historical notes, stories
and songs about the Buryat usurers and noyons (Burayad ulus-yin urda-yin bayad noyad
tuqai üge-nüüd ba daγun-uud-un tobči tedüi teüke amui) kept in the Mongolian fund of the
Center of Oriental Manuscripts and xylographs of the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist
and Tibetan studies is introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. In addition to
this manuscript, the Mongolian fund contains about thirty other works by the chronicler
D. Bubeev. This manuscript is an original monument of Buryat literature and folklore in
Old Mongolian script with elements of the genre of travelogue.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research was carried out within the state assignment of Russia (project “Written monuments
of Inner Asia peoples: research, interpretation and presentation”, No. AAAA-A19-119111300043-4).

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: handwritten source

value: the Old Mongolian script

value: folk stories

value: buryat songs

value: Dashi Bubeev


dc.contributor.author

value: Georgopoulou, Panagiota

dc.identifier.citation

value: Georgopoulou P. The coronavirus challenge to modern anthropocentrism. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology, 2021, vol. 14, issue 4, pp. 318–329.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Following Goya’s painting “Duel with Cudgels” as metaphor, with which Michel Serres opens
his book The Natural Contract, this article argues that the coronavirus pandemic, with its devastating
impact on our lives, dismantles the modern anthropocentric framework. It thrusts us
violently into a post-anthropocentric perspective, which dislocates the human from the center
of being and invites us to understand human existence in relation to nonhuman others such as
the planet, the environment, animals, and technologies. However, at this critical moment, instead
of seeing the pandemic crisis as a wake-up call for a shift of focus from the anthropocentric
to a post-anthropocentric perspective, the dominant ways of understanding it on public
discourse keep framing it in anthropocentric terms. As this discusses, taking as an indicative
case the first wave of the pandemic in Greece, from March to June 2020, what seems to be a
common ground in the rhetoric of the media, politicians, and a significant part of scientists,
is that more or less almost all of them share and uphold the dividing lines between humannonhuman,
society-nature, ideologically obsessed with human superiority despite evidence
to the contrary. In this respect, the post-anthropocentric challenge due to the coronavirus
pandemic seems to have been postponed until further notice. Thus, as we are stuck on the old
anthropocentric business as usual, one of the fundamental issues of human societies in the 21st
century, that being man’s fragile relationships with Planet Earth and other co-species, remains
a blind spot, hindering appropriate action.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Sociology;Volume 14; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: coronavirus pandemic

value: modern anthropocentrism

value: post-anthropocentrism

value: posthumanism

value: coronavirus public discourse


title: City sociology workshop: Experience of “immersion” of researchers in the digital social environment

dc.contributor.author

value: Deriugin, Pavel P.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The publication is performed under the support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research in the framework
of the science project No. 19-29-07433/19.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Shipunova, Tatiana V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Shipunova T. V. Problems of state regulation of social security during a pandemic. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology, 2021, vol. 14, issue 4, pp. 360–373.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article provides a characteristic of approaches to understanding social security, and also
analyzes one central problem: the possibility of identifying and assessing risk. In modern society,
perceptions of risk are determined by a political vision of the situation. In this regard,
attention is increasing turned to strategies of state regulation and the definition of measures of
state responsibility in ensuring security, especially during a pandemic. At the moment, a number
of questions have arisen that require study, since the answers to them largely determine
the degree of pain in the passage of the pandemic by different societies. The article examines
the validity of introducing a wide range of prohibitive measures, which with a high degree of
probability can lead to a deterioration in the social security of the population and an expansion
of the crisis of power in all democratic societies. The author focuses on the growing processes
of normalization and discipline, which significantly complicate social interactions in
various spheres of life and devalue democratic values. The analysis leads to the conclusion that
government strategies to combat the pandemic should be associated with the partnership of
all security agents, including individuals. This, in turn, will be able to restore the confidence of
the population in the authorities, as well as lay the foundations for the development of a safety
culture that will activate society in protection against existing and possible future threats to
public health.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: pandemic

value: social security

value: risks

value: political decisions and state responsibility

value: normalization and discipline


dc.contributor.author

value: Efimova, Galina Z.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Efimova G. Z. Perception of fairness in pay by academic and teaching staff. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology, 2021, vol. 14, issue 4, pp. 297–317.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Equity is defined as a correlation between a person’s merits and their remuneration. This article
deals with social and labor equity, regarding it as a subjective assessment of the ratio
of wages to employees’ physical and/or intellectual effort. The article aims to determine the
subjective assessment of academic and teaching staff pay equity. An empirical study of the
semi-formalized expert research method was carried out with 86 academic and teaching staff
of four Russian universities. A series of expert interviews was conducted in 2019–2020. For
the analysis, we relied on material and non-material factors of subjective assessment of wage
fairness. The results show that half of the informants consider the balance of labor and effort to
be fair. At the same time, they call their work quite laborious. Remuneration for research and
teaching staff consists of educational and research activities. The second part is not guaranteed
and is usually large income from educational activities. This level of fairness of payment is
influenced by a competent system of incentives for university academic and teaching staff. An
unfair level of remuneration compels competitive personnel to move to the real sector of the
economy or academic markets of other countries. For younger (under 30) and non-graduated
employees, the assessment of wages as unfair is characteristic. These people have a high classroom
load and supporting roles in scientific projects. In addition to material factors on the
subjective assessment of equity are non-material factors (free schedule, comfortable working
conditions, management support, interest in work, involvement in scientific research and selfrealization).
Intangible factors contribute to the consolidation of academic and teaching staff
in the academic field. Fairness of pay is influenced by a transparent pay system and trust in
the employer. The assessment of the fairness of the payment is stable, so it needs to be done
regularly to prevent the edification of team dissatisfaction.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The publication is performed under the support of the Russian Science Foundation in the framework
of the project No. 19-18-00485 “The Human Dimension of the Transformation Processes of Russian
Universities: Historical Experience, Trends and Responses to the Contemporary Challenges”.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Sociology;Volume 14; Issue 4

value: equity

value: assessment of equity

value: pay equity

value: academic and teaching staff

value: higher education

value: higher educational institution


dc.contributor.author

value: Sergeyeva, Olga V.

value: Miziryak, Nadezhda A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Sergeyeva O. V., Miziryak N. A. Post-apocalyptic environment and its reinterpretation in Death Stranding. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology, 2021, vol. 14, issue 4, pp. 330–343.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Before becoming a reality, the technological environment exists in the projects and intentions
of people. Sociologist S. Jasanoff offers the concept “sociotechnical imaginary”, which means
ideas about the value of technologies and their future contribution to social development. The
authors analyze some futuristic environment elements in the computer game Death Stranding
based on this concept. The game embodies avant-garde solutions for establishing social communication
infrastructure in a post-apocalyptic world. Death Stranding’s semantic emphasis,
which was released before the pandemic, anticipated many of the risks and sentiments from
the physical and social barriers of the COVID-19 period. The authors use Russian-language
streams dedicated to Death Stranding as empirical material for the case analysis. The authors
review the academic experience of those who have already studied the post-apocalypse presented
in various popular texts (movies, novels, computer games). In mass culture stand out
the narrative and visual templates of the post-apocalypse: division of spaces and characters
into “spoiled/infected” and “pure”; wandering; attention to unusual details of everyday life
and world order, aestheticization of ruins. When discussing habitat in Death Stranding, there
are clear solidarizing and eco-friendly landmarks in the game narrative and mechanics: minimalistic
consumption and the importance of recycling, discovery of new renewable resources,
cooperative usage of infrastructure, the ineffectiveness of violence. According to the authors,
the game’s habitat model brings new insights into contemporary sociotechnical imaginary.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Russian Management Journal;Volume 14; Issue 4

value: social imaginary

value: computer games

value: environment

value: post-apocalypse

value: infrastructure

value: Death Stranding

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Kuznetsova, Yuliia A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kuznetsova Yu. A. Virtualization of society: “Cyberprosthetics” of social interaction. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology, 2021, vol. 14, issue 4, pp. 344–359.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The problem of virtualization of institutional forms of social interaction is not new, but it continues
to remain relevant today in the context of the emergence of new information and digital
tools. Social changes caused by social virtualization are manifested in the main spheres of life
of a representative of the information society of the 21st century: in economics, politics, science,
and culture. Information flow, digital technologies, and network “cobwebs” are embedded
in the “core” of social interaction, forming a “cyber-skeleton” inside it, which, replacing
real objects and actions with images, modifies the model of social relationships. The author
conducts a theoretical study, during which the concept of social virtualization is clarified in
the context of new social realities, some approaches to understanding the virtualization of society
are considered and systematized, and the key characteristics of virtual reality are revised.
Through the combined consideration of the theories of social virtualization by D. V. Ivanov
and social interaction by P. A. Sorokin, conclusions are drawn about how social virtualization
affects the institutional forms of interaction: namely, how the structure of social interaction is
modified in the context of virtual space. Sorokin’s model of social action “subject — actor —
conductor” is being transformed, and the “conductor” link is giving way to “cyber-channel,”
which is presented as a tool for organizing spatial communication through new information
and digital technologies (for example, social networks). Since virtualization as a global social
process primarily consists of the local transformation of individual forms of social interactions, the article provides a number of author’s examples of “cyberprosthetic”, gradually
transformed individual segments of public life by means of transition to virtual space, forms
of everyday practices of representatives of the modern information society — virtual shop,
virtual cemetery, virtual love.

dc.subject

value: sociology of the information society

value: virtualization of society

value: transformation of social interaction

value: virtual reality