The reception and dissemination of B.A. Uspenskiy’s academic ideas in China

INTRODUCTION. Boris A. Uspensky, an outstanding Russian semiotist and one of the key founders of the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School, has been attracting more and more attention in the Chinese academic community in recent years. The process of perception and dissemination of his academic ideas, as well as their creative application and development in the Chinese scientific context, deserve to be studied.

MATERIALS AND METHODS. A set of complementary approaches has been applied, including a historical and chronological analysis of the evolution of the reception of B.A. Uspensky’s ideas in China from the 1980s to the present and a comparative analysis of his concepts conducted both at the domestic and intercultural levels.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. The study of B.A. Uspensky’s ideas has gone a long way – from familiarization to interpretation and, finally, to creative adaptation. The spread of his thought in China was made possible by the methodological innovation of her poetics of composition and the national spirit embodied in it. Based on this, along with the analysis of existing works, the little-studied concept of “framework” in the poetics of composition is analyzed, and a new point of view is proposed through the dialogue of Russian and Chinese poetics – “emotional”.

CONCLUSION. The academic concepts of B.A. Uspensky differ in both theoretical depth and practical value, which indicates their substantial versatility. The research and innovative development of his academic thought contributes to the Russian-Chinese academic dialogue and stimulates the development of humanities and social sciences in China.