Chinese New Year art
25 January 2023
Time: From 3 pm to 4:30 pm
7/9 Universitetskaya Embankment, M. Gorky Scientific Library of SPbU
The lecture will focus on the special genre of traditional Chinese art (Nianhua folk pictures), which is an important part of Chinese New Year. Lecturers will discuss the history of this genre, its features, and the types of Chinese folk art. Lectures will pay special attention to the symbolism reflected in these pictures.
Lecturers: Polina Rud, Research Officer of the Department of Ethnography of the East and South-East Asia of the Russian Academy of Science’s Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography; Dmitry Mayatsky, Associate Professor of the Department of Chinese philology of St Petersburg University