Co-hosted by Global Studies Forum, Oxford University Press, and Yale Center Beijing

Event Time

Beijing Time
Sunday, January 19, 2025, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

New York Time
Saturday, January 18, 2025, 10:00 pm - 12:00 am

Live Stream Platforms & Channels

“Global Studies Forum” 
Bilibili Official Channel
Live Stream Link: https://space.bilibili.com/3493291622402783
Live Stream Room ID：27818660

VooV Meeting
Meeting Link：https://meeting.tencent.com/dw/83qpZLnsAeY0
Meeting ID：911-936-021

The Event

On January 19, Jinyi Chu, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University, will join scholars from leading institutions to discuss his recently published book, Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics: The Other is the Universal, moderated by Cheng Xing, Assistant Professor of Chinese literature at Zhejiang University.

In his new book, Jinyi Chu reconsiders Russia’s place in the genealogy of global modernism, reconstructing an array of surprising stories about Russo-Chinese cultural interactions through literary texts, paintings, advertisements, official documents, and archival sources. He highlights how literature and art redefined the world order as China shifted from Russia’s rival in Inner Asia to a target of imperialist competition.

The Speaker

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

Jinyi Chu is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and a faculty fellow at the European Studies Council and the Council on East Asian Studies at the MacMillan Center at Yale University. He received his PhD from Stanford University. His research interests span Russian modernism, Russian poetry, socialist culture, translation studies, and Sino-Russian relations. He is the author of the monograph Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics: The Other is the Universal and numerous peer-reviewed articles and public essays on the writing of Lenin, Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Mandelstam, and Pasternak. He is also the Chinese translator of Joseph Frank’s Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time as well as other scholarly and literary works in English and Russian.

The Moderator

Cheng Xing
Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, Zhejiang University

Cheng Xing is Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature at Zhejiang University. She studied at Peking University from 2004 to 2017 and received her doctoral degree in Chinese Literature in 2017. Her research fields include Lu Xun, translation studies, literature modernity and theory of memory. She has published research articles in the field of modern Chinese literature on journals such as Literature Review, Literature and Art Studies, and Modern Chinese Literature Studies.

Discussants

Jing Li
Ph.D. Candidate in History, Tsinghua University

Bowen Li
Doctoral Candidate in Slavic Literature, Kyoto University

Cheng Xing
Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, Zhejiang University

Jun Xie
Associate Professor, Department of Dramatic Literature, Central Academy of Drama

Liya Xie
Ph.D. Candidate in History, Princeton University

Yazhe Yang
Ph.D. Candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University