Humanities & Social Sciences 7 (2015 8) 1494-1500 ~ ~ ~ УДК 801.73 Methodological Aspects of Study of the Modern Russian Literature Reception in China Zhao Xue* Harbin Polytechnic University Harbin, China Received 16.02.2015, received in revised form 20.04.2015, accepted 07.06.2015 The article substantiates the effi ciency of selecting methodological principles for the study of modern Russian literature reception by Chinese readers. <...> The author refers to the tradition of comparative literature, receptive aesthetics, analyses the concept that emerged within the framework of communication theory. <...> The methodological «sieve» allows considering the reception of the texts produced in other cultures with regard to the factors (interference, stereotypes) that cause interpretation confl icts and communication failures. <...> Introduction of The research, dedicated to the questions reception of the texts produced in other cultures, has constituted a separate branch of literature studies. <...> Thus, application of the comparative literature methods provides the neutrality of study of the literary infl uence, while emphasis on the theoretic thesis of receptive aesthetics actualizes a different aspect of reception studies, i.e. the peculiarities of perception by a reader from a different culture. <...> The objective of the present article is to offer and to substantiate the productivity of the complex methodological paradigm for studying peculiarities of modern Russian literature reception by Chinese readers, including the phenomena of a stereotype, selfunderstanding, interpretation confl ict etc. <...> Methodological and theoretical orientations Obviously, the methodological the studies of foundation intercultural dialogue process was laid comparative literature the problems of mutual and repulsion, “import” of literature reception in the by studies encompassing infl uence, attraction images, storylines, Zhao Xue. <...> Methodological Aspects of Study of the Modern Russian Literature Reception in China and poetics (M. Guyard, P. van Tieghem, A.N. Veselovsky, V.M. Zhirmunsky, N.K. Gudziy, N.I. Konrad). <...> This academic school of literature studies is not directly engaged with studying any problems of text reception by the readers, though it provides a series of postulates that seem to be relevant for the research of modern Russian literature perception by Chinese readers. <...> First of all, there is a postulate of partial transformation of the perceived text due to the national development and national dialogue, infecting and provoking a response to itself; the term of “dialogue relations”, therefore, includes more than literary <...>