The study on Pushkin’s fairy tales in China: history and modernity

The author attempts to systematize and summarize the review works of Chinese philologists devoted to Pushkin’s fairy tales. The history of the translation of Pushkin's fairy tales into Chinese is considered. The works of studying Pushkin's fairy tales, which regard Pushkin's fairy tales as entirety, are presented. The studies of Chinese philologists on a separate Pushkin's fairy tale are shown, especially on “The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish”. It is concluded that the study of Pushkin's fairy tales in China is huge, and it has its own character. Nowadays, the study of Pushkin's fairy tales is experiencing a new upsurge. Because of the generational change in literary theory, philologists in China have expanded the fields of research and created new interpretations of Pushkin's fairy tales and are following wider and more research on Pushkin's fairy tales.