Fin-De-Siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics

This book presents a new cultural history of fin-de-siècle Russia in relation to the East. Drawing on literary texts, paintings, advertisements, official documents, and archival work, it reconsiders the place of Russia in the genealogy of global modernism by exploring the enduring impact of China on pre-revolutionary Russian culture.

Jinyi Chu is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. He holds a PhD from Stanford University. Chu's research focuses on Russian modernism, socialist culture, Russo-Chinese relations, and translation studies.

- 1: Introduction
- 2: The Universal Truth
- 3: Meta-Exoticism
- 4: Russian Cathays
- 5: The Transnational Fantastic
- 6: Epilogue: The Untranslatable is the Universal
- Bibliography
- Index