Prof Lin Jinghua

Capital Normal University (Beijing, China)

Professor Lin Jinghua was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Princess Dashkova Russian Centre in August 2014. Whilst in Edinburgh, Prof. Lin collected and researched historical materials on British understanding of Russian literature during the Cold War.

Prof. Lin is a Dean of the Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Capital Normal University (Beijing, China). He published over 130 articles on Post-Soviet Russian literature, Russian Orthodoxy, and the relationship between Russian and Chinese cultures (in Chinese). He also published 6 monographs, Imagined Russia: a study on Russian identity (2003), The Pitfall and meaning of Nationalism: a study on Russian identity of post-Soviet Russian Literature (2002), Misreading Russia: a study on Russian elements of Chinese modernity (2005), Russian Phantom in Modern China (2011), International Politics of Literature (2013), The Unfamiliar Neighbors: the Relationship of Russia and China after Cold War (upcoming). He also published his translation of Russian view on Gorky (from Russian, 2012), Western scholar on Russian literature of the Silver Age (from English, 2003), Prose of Alexander Blok (from Russian, 2001).

His research visits include: Moscow State Linguistic University (September 1999 -August 2000), Moscow State Pedagogical University (November 2006 - April 2007), and Institute for Far Eastern Studies of Russia’s Academy Sciences (November 2013 - April 2014).

Professor Lin is currently working in the area of Russian scholarship of British literature after the Cold War.