Obecność Henryka Sienkiewicza w Chinach. Fenomen recepcji
Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Presence in China. A Phenomenon of Reception

Summary/Abstract: Henryk Sienkiewicz has been known in China since 1905—the year he received the Nobel Prize. The time also marks the publishing of the translation of “Latarnik” (“The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall”). For more than 100 years the writer’s output has been raising interest in The Middle Kingdom, and reception if his writing is distinguished by unique dynamics. The paper aims to present the modern modes of Sienkiewicz’s reception by Chinese researchers, includes an analysis of his influence over the Chinese society performed from the viewpoint of receivers’ horizon of expectations formulated by Hans Robert Jauss, investigates the impact of the Polish writer on Chinese literature performed from the point of view of intertextuality, and offers a presentation, in the light of gender studies, of Sienkiewicz’s latest literary criticism. The study reveals that Sienkiewicz’s reception in China is a world scale phenomenon. Continuity and dynamics of internalising his works and multidimensionality in Sienkiewicz studies form a full image of his presence in the Middle Kingdom.

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