Humanistic Ideas in Chen Jianhua’s Russian Literature Study: A Perspective of Academic History

This article attempts to “defamiliarize” nearly 40 years Russian Literature Study by Prof. Chen Jianhua, and to summarize the text pattern of “Russian Literature as an Idea” since the 1980s in his Russian Literature Classics Study, Soviet Literature Study, Study of the relationship between Chinese literature and Russian literature as academic and disciplinary history, and literary educational as well. It places special emphasis on exploring the historical context in which contemporaries of Prof. Chen approached Russian Literature, the relationship between Chinese literature and Russian literature, in order to echo the spiritual connection between the new generation of Chinese scholars since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, to generate a kind of “dialogue and polyphony” effect with changes of times, and to enhance the genealogy of 20th century Chinese Humanistic Ideas.