The Image of China in Russian Blogs About Chinese Painting

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the image of China in the Russian-language texts of blogs about Chinese painting. The purpose of this study is to determine the descriptive aspects of the art forms studied, as well as the linguistic and non-linguistic ways of forming a fragment of Chinese image. The material comes from the blogs about Chinese painting published on the online platform LiveJournal and in the online edition Magazeta.The relevance of the work is due to the interest in the humanities in the media image of China. In the process of analyzing empirical material, the methods of contextual analysis and media-linguistic analysis are used. The materials studied reveal five main aspects of Chinese painting description: the status of painting in Chinese and world culture; content and genres of Chinese painting; artist status and skill; perception of Chinese painting through the eyes of another cultural representative; the painting elements of Chinese painting in the text. It reveals the language means of forming the unique part of Chinese art and the functions of the visual components in blog texts. It is concluded that China is presented in Russian-language blogs as an amazing country with an ancient and unique culture, with deep symbolism of various philosophical concepts.