I. Turgenev's novel “Fathers and Sons” in Chinese literary studies

The article discusses the historical and functional aspect of the study about the novel by I.S. Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons” in China. The focus is on a large number of works devoted to the Russian classic over the past century. At the same time, the historical path that the Chinese literary studies have gone through is viewed - a gradual overcoming of the sociological, in essence of Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP), approach to the study of elegant literature, shifting the attention of articles’ authors from arbitrary interpretation of content to a plan for considering the content form. Such topics as Turgenev’s landscape, psychological depiction, and Turgenev’s hero are covered in more detail. The conclusion is drawn about the continued attention of Chinese writers to Russian classics.