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Dmitry Mayatskiy

REFLECTIONS ON POETIC AND PROSAIC INTERPOLATIONS IN THE PLAY

“PIPA JI” BY THE YUAN PLAYWRIGHT GAO ZECHENG (1305?-1360?) (IN ENGLISH) ..................................... 63

Andronika Martonova

ABOUT THE FILMS ON “SILK REEL”: THE CHINESE SILENT CINEMA

IN THE BULGARIAN PRESS (IN ENGLISH) ............................................................................................................... 66

Sonya Alexieva

THE SILK ROAD AS A TOURIST PRODUCT: INTEGRATING HISTORY, CULTURE AND

ECONOMY (IN BULGARIAN) ........................................................................................................................................ 73

Eleonora KolevaTHE WAY OF RAMEN IN JAPAN – FROM THE CHINESE NOODLES LA MIAN拉麺 TO THE JAPANESE NA-

TIONAL DISH RAMENラーメン (IN ENGLISH) ........................................................................................................ 77

Konstantin Bayraktarov

INTELLECTUAL GAMES ON THE SILK ROAD (IN ENGLISH) ................................................................................ 81

Dobrina Zheleva – Martins, Minka Zlateva

THE SILK THREADS BETW EEN THE EAST AND THE WEST (IN ENGLISH) ....................................................... 85

He Yi

TEACHING BUSINESS CHINESE AND SPREAD OF ECONOMIC CULTURE – 

A NEW SILK ROAD LEADING TO THE SOUTHERN PART OF AFRICA (IN CHINESE) ...................................... 92

III. SECTION “LITERATURE”

Alexey Rodionov

ON RUSSIAN TRANSLATIONS OF LU XUN (IN CHINESE) ...................................................................................... 97

Vesselin Karastoychev

SOME ASPECTS OF THE RECEPTION OF DADAISM AND

SURREALISM IN THE CHINESE LITERATURE (IN BULGARIAN) ....................................................................... 100

Gergana Petkova

ALONG THE SILK ROAD – OR HOW AND WHY TRADITIONAL CULTURE OF

CLOTHES IS REFLECTED IN JAPANESE FAIRY TALES (IN ENGLISH) .............................................................. 105

IV. SECTION “HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY”

Radosav Pusić

THE SILK ROADS: THE CROSSROADS OF CIVILIZATIONS (IN CHINESE) ....................................................... 112

Alexander Fedotof f 

ON ‘THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE MONGOLS” AND CHINESE HISTORY (IN ENGLISH) ............................ 115

Mario Appen

IRANIANS IN CENTRAL ASIA ALONG THE SILK ROAD (2ND AND 1ST MILLENIA BC – 

MIDDLE OF THE 1ST MILLENIUM CE) (IN ENGLISH) ........................................................................................... 118

Yuri Stoyanov

THE SOGDIAN SECTION OF THE SILK ROAD: NEW DISCOVERIES AND APPROACHES TO ITS HISTORY

AND ARCHAEOLOGY (IN ENGLISH) ........................................................................................................................ 122

Svetla Karteva

ANCIENT MONGOL CAPITAL CITY KARAKORUM (XIII-XIV CENTURY)

(IN BULGARIAN) ........................................................................................................................................................... 129

Maria Marinova

THE ETHNIC CONTINUITY ON THE TERRITORY OF LITTLE BUKHARIA IN NORTHWEST CHINA (IN

BULGARIAN) .................................................................................................................................................................. 133

V. SECTION “PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION”

Teodora Koutzarova

‘FABRICNESS’ AND OTHER CONCOMITANT CHARACTERISTICS OF NUMBER PERCEPTION OF THE ANCIENT CHINESE (IN ENGLISH) ................................................................... 147

Aksinia Koleva

INTRODUCTION OF ZOROASTRIANISM IN CHINA (IN BULGARIAN) ............................................................... 155

 

Alexander Storozhuk

CONCEPT OF SOUL IN CHINESE FOLKSY BELIEFS (IN ENGLISH) .................................................................... 159

Mariana Zorkina

TAOIST GARMENTS IN RITUALS AND MONASTIC LIFE (IN ENGLISH) ........................................................... 162

Dessislava Damyanova

MATTEO RICCI ON THE SILK ROAD (IN ENGLISH) ...............................................................................................166

Antoaneta Nikolova

THE CONCEPT OF WU XING AND THE ALTERNATIVES OF CAUSALITY

IN THE CONTEXT OF ECOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS (IN ENGLISH) .............................................................. 1 71

ABOUT THE AUTHORS ...................................................................................................................................... 174

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排名 作品/文集 版本次数/翻译次数

1 《阿Q正传》/ 《呐喊》 21/5

2 《故乡》/ 《呐喊》 20/4

3 《孔乙己》/ 《呐喊》 19/3

4 《一件小事》/ 《呐喊》 18/3

5 《明天》/ 《呐喊》 16/2

5 《在酒楼上》/ 《彷徨》 16/16 《祝福》/ 《彷徨》 14/5

7 《社戏》/ 《呐喊》 12/3

7 《风筝》 / 《野草》 12/1

8 《风波》 / 《呐喊》 11/2

8 《立论》/ 《野草》 11/1

9. 《药》 / 《呐喊》 10/2

9. 《幸福的家庭》/ 《彷徨》 10/2

10. 《狗的驳诘》/ 《野草》 10/2

11. 《秋夜》/ 《野草》 10/1

这些在俄罗斯最受欢迎的鲁迅作品中,有8篇出自《呐喊》、3篇出自《彷徨》、4篇出自《野草》。由此可见,鲁迅创作中最吸引编选者、出版者和译者兴趣的是其突出反映中国人内心世界和中国社会的小

说。至于鲁迅的杂文,它虽然大部分被译成俄文,但是再版的很少,因为苏联读者大多客观上不了解中国1920-1930年代的文学和政治论战,所以只有汉学家才对它们产生兴趣。

鲁迅创作在苏联的出版进程大体上与翻译活跃时期是一致的,也具有同样的历史背景。

表三 «苏联鲁迅作品俄文单行本的发行量»

1929 1938 1945 1950 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1959 1960 1964 1971 1981 1986 1989

集1

3000 10

225

10

000

150

000

90

000

90

000

30

000

100

000

90

000

15

000

5

000

30

000

30

0000

75

000

100

000

100000

文集2

150000

75000

10000

文集

3

30

000

一年

小计

3000 10

225

10

000

330

000

90

000

165

000

30

000

100

000

90

000

25

000

5000 30

000

30

0000

75

000

100

000

100000

总量 1 463 225 册

表四 «鲁迅作品单行本在不同年代出版情况»

年代 版本次数 发行量

1920 1 3000

系一冷冻,出版方面就出现了急剧下降。不过与

丛书》,这就多少掩盖了当时并不乐观的文学交

作品的再版创造了有利的条件,但它还是没有恢

次由“儿童文学”出版社以大发行量出版,主要

高的评价。至于苏联解体以后,俄罗斯20年间没

文学兴趣的下降。文学出版社在市场经济条件下

斯读者绝大部分没听说过鲁迅等任何其他中国现

保有高度的思想和艺术价值,其苏联时期的译文

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4 Лу Синь. Избранное. – М: Гослитиздат, 194

5 Лу Синь. Повести и рассказы. БВЛ. Т. 162. - М

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The author pursued a Doctor’s degree at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto, where she was an instructor in “Modern StandardChinese”and a Teaching Assistant in “Chinese Fiction”.

In 2008 Sofia University Press published her book “ A Treatise on the Way and the Innate Bestowal: a Translation and Critical Analysis” .E-mail: teo.koutzarova@utoronto.ca

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TIAN JIANJUN, graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University, Department of East European Languages with a Bachelor’s degree in BulgarianLanguage major (1984- 1989). Acquired a Master’s Degree in Humanities (1999 - 2002) at the College of European languages and cultures at the sameuniversity.

His teaching activity begins immediately after completing his higher education i n 1989 as an assistant at t he Department of “Bulgarian language andliterature”, Faculty of Eastern European languages at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He has also taught 7 classes of students. Between July 1998 – April2007 he was Head of Department “Bulgarian Studies”and in July 2005 became an Associate Professor in Bulgarian philology.

Ass. Prof. Tian has extensive practice in Chinese/Bulgarian translation (Government, Academic and Non-official delegations, including the nationalrhythmic gymnastics team at the State Sports Commission of the PR of China and a number of art works by Bulgarian classics.

Tian Jianjun has authored and co-authored dozens of articles and studies. He is also a compiler and editor of textbooks in Bulgarian. Member of theteam, which worked on the compilation of the Great Bulgarian-Chinese dictionary.

He has numerous papers at international scientific forums. Tian Jianjun was a member of the Academic Council of the Department of EuropeanLanguages, Beijing Foreign Studies University. Winner of the award “Chеn Meijie”for best young lecturer at BFSU in 1995. At present he is the Chinese Directorof the Confucius Institute in Sofia - from its foundation in April 2007 up to now.

E-mail:bfsutian@yahoo.com

  VESELIN KARASTOYCHEV,sinologist, chief assistant in Chinese literature at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridsky”. Teaches medieval, contem-porary and modern Chinese literature.

Author of the following articles:- “Notes of the Peach Blossom Spring”by Tao Yuanming, Koreana, Sofia, 2001;- “Chinese Literature Sites as Chronicles of the Avant-gardism”– In: Collection of Papers from the Symposium “The Word – Classical and New”, “St. KlimentOhridski”University Press, 2007;- “The main doctrines of the Poetic Movement Feifei in the Light of the European Linguistic Philosophy” – In: Collection of Articles from the Symposium“China: Tradition and Modernity”, Confucius Institute in Sofia, 2009;

Translator of contemporary Chinese poetry and prose. Compiler and translator of the book “Tiny Lexicon of the New Chinese Litearature”, StigmatiPublishing House, 2008.

E-mail: max_wessel@yahoo.de

 YAN QIUXIA,  Assoc. Prof. at the Zhongyuan University of Technology, Henan, PRC, Guest lecturer at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Veliko

Turnovo, Bulgaria.Fields of academic research: Comparison of Chinese and foreign cultures; comparison of Chinese and English.List of publications:

 An Analysis of the Reasons for the Influence of Maugham on Zhang Ailing. – In: Beauty, 2006.On Maugham and Zhang Ailing’s Anti-climax. – In: Charming China, 2007.On Maugham and Zhang Ailing’s Complex of Stories. – In: Beauty, 2007.On the Quality Education of the English Majors in the First Two Years.– In: He`nan Education, 2008.From Constructivism, Modern Information Technology to Autonomous English Learning. – In: Charming China, 2009.E-mail: yqx2001@yahoo.com.cn

  YOU TIAN received his BA degree in Chinese Language and Literature from Tonghua Normal University in 1992 and MA degree in Linguistics andApplied Linguistics from Beijing Language and Culture University in 2008.

He is a lecturer at the International Cultural Exchange School of Changchun University. He is well experienced with Chinese teaching and got thecertificate for teaching Chinese as a foreign language from the Ministry of Education of China in 1998. Now he is a guest lecturer in Faculty of Philology in Ss.Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.

E-mail: philip425cc@yahoo.com.cn

  YURI STOYANOV obtained his PhD in Combined Historical Studies from the University of London (The Warburg Institute). Fellow of the Royal Asiatic

Society, he is currently based at the Department of the Near and Middle East, School of Oriental and African Studies, (SOAS) University of London and iscurrently Senior Associate Fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem. Between 2006 and 2008 he was Director of the KenyonInstitute, Jerusalem (formerly the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem). He has lectured and published widely on various facets of the interactionbetween Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Levant, the Middle East and Central Asia and their significance for certain far-reaching con-temporary religio-political attitudes and developments.

He is the author of The Hidden Tradition in Europe (Penguin, London, 1994), The Other God (Yale University Press, London & New York, 2000), Defendersand Enemies of the True Cross (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Vienna 2011) as well as assistant editor of Christian Dualist Heresies in the Byzantine World c.650-c.1450 (Manchester University Press, Manchester & New York, 1998).

Since 2000 he has worked on a number of research projects (supported by British and Italian academic i nstitutions and involving wide-ranging field

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