Rodionov Aleksei is Senior Deputy Dean and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St Petersburg State University and literary translator. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Confucius Institute at St. Petersburg University, vice-president of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Association in St. Petersburg, and head of the Chinese Literature Club in Russia.His research focus on modern Chinese literature, Russian–Chinese literary communication and translation studies. Among his numerous publications are Handbook of Chinese Literary History；Lao She and the National Character in Chinese Literature in the 20th Century；The Pace of Chinese Literature Going Global: the Spread of Chinese Contemporary Novels and Prose in Russia After the Disintegration of the Soviet Union；National Image and Promotion of Literature: Some Observations on Recent Russian- Chinese Literary Communication；Images of Russia in Chinese Literary Periodicals at the Beginning of the 1930s: Nationalist Perspective etc.