Доклады Международного конгресса ИИСАА. Т. 1

Доклады Международного конгресса по источниковедению и историографии стран Азии и Африки. Т. 1. 2020 587 Ekaterina Zavidovskaya (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), Polina Rud (MAE RAS, St Petersburg, Russia) The Earliest Chinese Woodblock Prints Nianhua in Russia: Historiographical Value of the Academician Leopold I. Schrenk’s Collection Housed at the MAE RAS 1 Summary: The Peter the Great Museum ofAnthropology and Ethnography of the RussianAcademy of Sciences (MAE RAS) holds a rich collection of popular Chinese woodblock prints nianhua 年畫 . Many of these prints have not been properly studied up to the present moment and have not been published before. The paper focuses on the earliest collection of popular Chinese woodblock prints in Russia, history of their acquisition by the Museum, motifs and artistic features. The pictures from the Fund № 675 came to the museum as a part of the ethnographic collection gathered by academician Leopold Ivanovich Schrenk (Leopold von Schrenck, 1826–1894). They were acquired during his expedition in the Amur region in 1855–1856. All of them were printed at the workshops of the Wuqiang county 武強 in Hebei province, one of the largest woodblock prints production centres in north China along with the centres in Yangliuqing 楊柳青 near Tianjin 天津 and those of Shandong Province 山東 . The majority of the images are based on plots of plays belonged to traditional opera genre called Hebei bangzi 河北梆子 , of Hebei 河北 and Shanxi 山西 provinces, and widely known classical novels; there are some prints with auspicious symbols. The article discuses thirteen prints from Schrenk’s collection. Almost all these images illustrate plays, oral narratives and novels. The study provides transcripts and translations of the texts on the prints which describe the depicted plots. The article also addresses the issue of history of prints production centres and their trade routes. The authors analyse prints fromWuqiang published in the recent albums and catalogues in Russia and PRC. Keywords: Chinese woodblock print nianhua ; Wuqiang county; academician L. I. Schrenk; Chinese collections of the MAE RAS. 1 This publication was supported by the RFFI grant 19–59–52001 МНТа “Trade, Folk Beliefs, Art and Culture on Chinese Traditional Xylographic Pictures from Scantily Studied Collections of Russia and Taiwan.”