Ulteriori informazioni
This book presents a new cultural history of fin-de-siècle Russia in relation to the East. Drawing on literary texts, paintings, advertisements, official documents, and archival work, it reconsiders the place of Russia in the genealogy of global modernism by exploring the enduring impact of China on pre-revolutionary Russian culture.
Sommario
- 1: Introduction
- 2: The Universal Truth
- 3: Meta-Exoticism
- 4: Russian Cathays
- 5: The Transnational Fantastic
- 6: Epilogue: The Untranslatable is the Universal
- Bibliography
- Index
Info autore
Jinyi Chu is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. He holds a PhD from Stanford University. Chu's research focuses on Russian modernism, socialist culture, Russo-Chinese relations, and translation studies.
Riassunto
This book presents a new cultural history of fin-de-siècle Russia in relation to the East. Drawing on literary texts, paintings, advertisements, official documents, and archival work, it reconsiders the place of Russia in the genealogy of global modernism by exploring the enduring impact of China on pre-revolutionary Russian culture.
Testo aggiuntivo
Pushing beyond the Orientalist paradigm, fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics reframes the Russian modernist engagement with Chinese aesthetics as a search for an expanded sense of universalism that could overcome the false universality of a Eurocentric cultural order. Linguistically dexterous and intellectually daring, with a methodological range that encompasses religious philosophy, aesthetic theory, scrupulous philology, and translation analysis, Jinyi Chu's book makes a major contribution to our understanding of modernism as well as the cultural history of the Sino-Russian relationship.
