Развитие сюжета о Чжуан-цзы и его жене в культуре России XVIII в.
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This paper is dedicated to research of story about Taoist thinker Zhuan-zi and his wife, and it`s circulation in Russian culture, in the XVIIIth century. Main research material was a text “Zhuang-zi and Tian, discovered adultery. Chinese novel with three novels from book called adversities of happiness”. This novel was published in Russian in the 1785. Translated from French. Translator is not identified. Novel is describe how did Zhuang-zi discovered his wife`s adultery. During this research, it was discovered, that this story was known in Russia before this novel`s publishing. Same story about unfaithful wife was used by Voltair in one of his philosophical novel`s chapter “Zadig; or, The Book of Fate”. It is obviously, that Voltair was inspirited by Chinese novel with same story, but main character was Wu-Wang is one of the first rulers of ancient Chinese Zhou state. Same time it was discovered, that researching text was a first Chinese fiction, translated into Russian. Translation of “Zhuang-zi and Tian…” had a didactical reason. It should show an example of morally person, and true confucianistic relations between husband and wife. This tendency was popular in Russia in second part of the XVIIIth century, and was related with translations from Chinese and Manchu, and indirect translations of Chinese philosophical and political texts from European languages. These texts used to be as handbooks about education of noble young people.
Source: Studia Culturae
Author: D. V. Tsvetkov
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
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