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Global Asias

Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics

The Other is the Universal

Chu, Jinyi (Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University)

Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics

Global Asias

Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics

The Other is the Universal

Global Asias: Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics

 

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.


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Beschrijving Global Asias: Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics

Many are familiar with European modernists' interest in Chinese art and poetry, however less well known is that Russian literature and art at the turn of 20th century also flourished in a sustained dialogue with China. In Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics, Jinyi Chu reconsiders the place of Russia in the genealogy of global modernism by exploring the enduring impact of China on pre-revolutionary Russian culture. This book argues that fin-de-siècle Russian ideas about increasing global cultural and socioeconomic interconnectedness emerged from their unsettling encounters with China.

Drawing on literary texts, paintings, advertisements, official documents, and archival work in Russia, China, France, and the United States, Chu reconstructs surprising stories about cultural interactions. From Innokenty Annensky's encounter with a Tibetan monk in Paris, Aleksei Remizov's adaptations of Chinese ghost stories, and Lev Tolstoy's translations of the Daoist canon, to Ilya Mashkov's fauvist painting of a Chinese fairy, this book presents a new cultural history of fin-de-siècle Russia in relation to the East.

Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics casts new light on the intricate relationships between geopolitics and transnational aesthetics. It moves beyond the idea that Russian literary and artistic representations of China were simply manifestations of Russia's imperial ideology and Eurasian cultural identity. Instead, Chu shows that literature and art actively renegotiate and destabilize the preconceived world order at a time of intensifying geopolitical and cultural transformation when China shifted from Russia's rival in Inner Asia to a target in the competition of global imperialist powers.


ISBN
9780198920397
Pagina's
192
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Serie
Global Asias
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1
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Hardback
Taal
Engels
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OUP Oxford

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