Reception of Russian Literature in China’s Contemporary Digital Space

This article studies translated Russian literature as a factor of the development contemporary Russian-Chinese intercultural communication. The authors examine main traits reception in China, mechanisms transformation interest Chinese public at large works writers, and reasons for sustainable role classic (A. Pushkin, M. Lermontov, N. Gogol, I. Turgenev, F. Dostoyevsky, L. Tolstoy, A. Chekhov, Gorky, Sholokhov, Ostrovsky) basic element image Russia. identify why second half twentieth early twenty-first centuries whose translations are available China (some them have received Best Foreign Novel Twenty-First Century award) has not managed to change established structure priorities remaining periphery processes It is demonstrated that classical followed two scenarios, i.e. “profound” “superficial”. study literary critics cultural figures (Liu Wenfei, Wang Jiezhi, Cui Guoxin, etc.) makes it possible criteria selection perception conceptual, ethical stylistic domains, domains plot imagery. emphasised 21st-century literature, which lost its function model emulation standard copying, interesting specialists readers corpus texts reflects aesthetic issues ethnocultural regional without generating qualitatively new worldviews. present results quantitative qualitative analysis digital resources (Baidu, Sogou, reveal features by Internet users.