RODIONOV, Aleksei

Associate Professor in Chinese Philology Department, Senior Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St. Petersburg University, Russia. Main research fields include modern Chinese literature, Russian-Chinese literary communication, and literary translation. Major publications include Handbook for Chinese Literary History; Lao She and Issue of National Character in the 20th Century Chinese Literature; Chinese Literature’s Stepping Out: The Dissemination of Contemporary Chinese Fictions and Essays in Russia after the Collapse of the USSR. He compiled and edited 23 collections of contemporary Chinese literature translations, etc.