On the Multiple Orientations of China's Acceptance of Russian Literature

In accordance with the historical changes in the 20th century,China's assimilation of Russian literature manifested different preferences and value orientations in different stages: around the May 4th Movement,the emphasis was laid on the 19th-century Russian realism;from 1930s to the early 1950s,the Soviet revolutionary literature and Zhdanovism were greatly welcomed;the mid-1950s witnessed a lot of translations of the so-called Unfreeze Literary works,which was followed by the criticism of the Revisionist Literature;after the mid-1980s,the Return Literature was brought in;since the 1990s,the focus has been on the assimilation of those that were once ignored and the contemporary Russian literature after the fall of the Soviet Union.This long and tortuous process of acceptance has not only made the images of Russian literature undergo a constant change in China,but also reflected the acceptor's national tradition,its historical atmosphere,cultural psychology and practical need,revealing some important rules in the history of the relationship between Chinese and foreign literatures.