MÜLLER, Gotelind et SAMOYLOV, Nikolay éd.: Chinese Perceptions of Russia and the West: Changes, Continuities, and Contingencies during the Twentieth Century, Heidelberg: CrossAsia, 2020. https://doi.org/10.11588/xabooks.661
Changes, Continuities, and Contingencies during the Twentieth Century
This book aims at investigating changes and continuities in Chinese perceptions of Russia and the West during the 20th century, paying heed to the fact that the respective ascriptions and “frontlines” were historically contingent: who and what represented “Russia“ or “the West“ at a given time and at a given place? Was “Russia“ part of “the West“, or not? And if it was, in which regard? Which factors – foreign or indigenous – led to changes in Chinese perceptions and representations and why? With such questions in mind, this book was taking shape, growing out of a German-Russian project funded by the DFG-RFBR. The German-Russian research team from Heidelberg University and St. Petersburg State University worked on exploring the topic together with colleagues from mainland China and Taiwan, concentrating on three major areas: 1. The field of socialization via a look into normative descriptions of Russia and “the West“ in Chinese school textbooks which define images of the “other/s“ from childhood on; 2. The field of literature and Chinese fictional representations of Russia and “the West“ consumed by a Chinese reading public; 3. The field of visual and material manifestations which define images of the “other/s“ in their own medial way and make them accessible also to a public far from purely discursive levels and to those who do not actively look for them.
Gotelind MÜLLER-SAINI is head of the Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University.
Nikolay SAMOYLOV is head of the Department of Theory of Asian and African Social Development, St. Petersburg State University.
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Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Technical Notes
List of Tables
List of Figures
Gotelind MÜLLER
Introduction
Part I: TEXTBOOKS
Aleksandrs DMITRENKO
The Image of Russia and the West in Chinese History Textbooks, 1900-1949
Biao YANG
Portrayals of Soviet Russian History in Chinese History Textbooks since 1949
Lung-chih CHANG
Strangers from the North
Russia in History Textbooks of Postwar Taiwan
Mariana MÜNNING
World History at the Service of the Ruling Party
The Image of Russia and the West in ROC and PRC History Curricula and Textbooks 1949-90
Polina RYSAKOVA
The Images of Western Countries and Russia in History Textbooks for Secondary Schools in PRC and Republic of China on Taiwan in 1990-2000s
Part II: LITERATURE
Viatcheslav VETROV
Coming to Terms with Evil
Hsiang-yin Sasha CHEN
Russia as Master and Monster
Absorbing GOGOL's Madness and the Chinese "Little Tradition" in the Prose of LU Xun
Alexey RODIONOV
Images of Russia in Chinese Literary Periodicals at the Beginning of the 1930s
Nationalist Perspective
Ylva MONSCHEIN
Paradise Reloaded?
Wang Meng's Public Private Memories of Soviet Russia or the Art of Composing a Capriccio
Part III: VISUAL AND MATERIAL CULTURE
Elena STAROVOITOVA
Foreigners and Foreign Realities on Traditional Chinese Woodblock Prints of the Late 19th-Early 20th Centuries
Mariia GULEVA
Visual Perceptions of the West and Russia in Chinese Cartoon Magazines of the 1930s
Nikolay SAMOYLOV
Visual Images of the Soviet Union and the West in China (1950s-1960s)
Min-chin Kay CHIANG
"Reviving" the Russian Orthodox Church in Taiwan
Suian LI
The Attitude of Harbin Towards European Architecture (1949-2019)
Gotelind MÜLLER
Whose Heritage?
Western and Russian Tombs on Chinese Soil as Tangible Sites of Alterity
