The Pervasion of Chinese Literature and Culture in Bulgaria during the Period of the Revival Cover Image

Проникване на китайската литература и култура в България през Възраждането
The Pervasion of Chinese Literature and Culture in Bulgaria during the Period of the Revival

Author(s): Polina Tsoncheva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: cultural values; Bulgarian Revival; Chinese literature; perception

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at revealing cultural relations between Bulgaria and China during the period of the Bulgarian Revival, when the perception of cultural values from the “outside” world grows naturally, as the new Bulgarian nation needs to legitimize itself in front of the whole world and in front of itself as well. This trend creates a certain strategy for communication with the world culture, which determines the characteristics of reception of foreign literatures in our country. The interest towards China and the East as a whole is manifested in the form of messages, notes, references, translations in the periodicals that have an informative function – to introduce to the Bulgarian audience the everyday life and the constitution of China. Such popular publications create the necessary information background for the further perception of Chinese civilization in Bulgaria.