A project named “10 Chinese literature masterpieces in Russia and 10 Russian literature masterpieces in China” has been launched in Beijing, reports
TASS. Heads of the Russian and Chinese largest media holdings, representatives of the authorities, cultural professionals, poets and writers were present at the project launching ceremony.
According to the Editor of “Guanmin Gibao” Du Feitszinm the project will allow Russian and Chinese people to get to know the culture of both countries better what in its turn means that they will have a chance to get to know each other much better than they do now. He underlined that the authors of best books had always tried to deal with such things as patriotism, moral values and social responsibility in their works.
The project is included into the program of the Year of Russian and Chinese mass media and its launch was dated to the visit of the Russian President Vladimir Putin to China that
took place at the end of last week.
Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation on culture Vladimir Tolstoy heads the project expert board. Directors of a number of academic institutes, higher educational institutions, the Central Institute of Bibliography of the RF, and representatives of the MFA will work under his guidance. A famous specialist in Russian language and literature, translator and artist Gao Man chairs the jury as a representative of the People’s Republic of China.
