E. Teryukova

State Museum of the History of Religion, St. Petersburg,

Russia; St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

E-mail: eaterioukova@mail.ru

P. Tugarinov

State Museum of the History of Religion, St. Petersburg,

Russia

E-mail: tugarinov_pavel@mail.ru

E. Zavidovskaya

National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

E-mail: katushaza@yahoo.com

ON THE RESULTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “FOLK IMAGES AND LATE IMPERIAL CHINA” (ST. PETERSBURG, 29—30 JUNE 2017)

Abstract. The article deals with the conference “Folk Images and Late Imperial China” which was organized by the State Museum of the History of Religion and the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences and by the Mazu Culture Research Centre, National Chung Cheng University (Chiayi, Taiwan) in St. Petersburg on June 29—30, 2017. The conference engaged the leading researchers of Chinese folk art and religion from Taiwan and St. Petersburg and included 26 papers on Chinese folk images in Russian and international museum collections, the symbolism of Chinese folk images and semiological structure of myth, the evolution of Chinese folk images in the 20th century, the art of nianhua in contemporary China and Taiwan, the interaction of high and folk culture in Chinese art, Chinese religious syncretism and its portrayal in art. 

Key words: Chinese folk art, Chinese folk religion, Chinese folk images in Russia, museum collections, symbolism of Chinese folk images 

Acknowledgment. The publication was prepared under the grant from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Project No. 15-21-10001.

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