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DSc in Philology, Head of the Folklore Division, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
ZHAO HAIBO
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PhD Candidate, Department of Literature and World Art Culture, Amur State University
This paper is financially supported by grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project No. 17–04–00493 “Russian folklore in Chinese language of the Northern Manchuria: Studies and texts”.
This article discusses the results of interviews conducted by the authors in September 2018 with Chinese Russians in two villages of the Heihe Region of Heilongjiang Province, China — Hadayan and Bianjiang. The aim of the work was to identify the level and nature of knowledge of Russian folklore on the part of the older and middle generation of Chinese-Russian Métis in the region. Such field studies of Russian descendants in China in this area have never been undertaken before. The most interesting result of working with respondents is the recording of a fairy tale performed in Chinese with plots about stupid people, which in Russian folklore are usually called anecdotes about Poshekhon people. The fairy tale was recorded from a second generation Chinese-Russian Métis who had heard it as a child from her Russian grandmother, who in the 1920s moved with her husband from the village of Dim, located on the left bank of the Amur River, to Xiaodingzi Village (the old name of Bianjiang Village). The authors of the article present a transcribed text of the tale, including Pinyin, a translation in Russian and a comparative analysis of its plot with the Russian Siberian fairy tale tradition. This demonstrates the uniqueness of the fairy tale about “Ivashka” that reflects the peculiarities of the local folklore tradition of Chinese-Russian Métis of the PRC who live in the Russian-Chinese borderland.
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