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Conference dedicated to Russian literature opens in Shanghai

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Conference dedicated to Russian literature opens in Shanghai


08.07.2019

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The ninth international forum called Russian Literature of the 20th – 21st Centuries has opened today, July 6, in Shanghai, TASS reports. Specialists in the Russian language and literature from all over China are taking part in it. Among the guests of honor are many well-known scientists representing Russian science, who are joined by their foreign colleagues. Russian writers Viktor Yerofeyev, Alexey Varlamov and Evgeny Antashkevich will also speak at the forum. The event is organized by the Chinese scientific mass media called Russian literature and art.

Speakers at the opening ceremony of the conference noted that the Russian language in China today was experiencing the second round of popularity. In their opinion, this was the logical outcome of the development of friendly relations that bind the two countries.

The forum will help to promote the Russian language in the country. In addition, it is of great importance for the development of interaction between teachers of Russian working in China and in other countries.

The conference is aimed at deepening exchanges between scientists, students and universities.

The head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature of Fudan University Gao Yongwei expressed confidence that the works of Russian writers had a huge influence on readers in China. Many books of Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov, Sholokhov are familiar to several generations of Chinese readers. 

The director of the institute has no doubt that fruitful work at the forum will contribute to the further study of Russian literature in China.

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