Profile
Relations between Russian Literature and World Culture
Western Literary Theory and Comparative Poetics
Comparison of Chinese and Russian Literature
Educational Experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Department of Russian Language, Peking University (PKU);
Master’s Degree, Department of Russian Language, Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU);
Doctoral Degree, School of Russian Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU);
Work Experience
Teaching Assistant, Lecturer, Russian Teaching and Research Section, Department of Foreign Languages, Renmin University of China;
Postdoctoral Research, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University;
Associate Professor, Professor, Institute of World Literature, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University
Research Interests
Comparative Poetics; Bakhtin Studies; Russian school of European Poetics; Russian Literature and language; Comparison of Chinese and Russian Literature and Culture; The Public Sphere of Contemporary Russian Arts
Teaching Courses
Special Topics in Russian Literature;
Special Topics in Russian Literary Theory;
Comparative Poetics: Theory and Practice;
Specialized Studies on Mikhail Bakhtin;
Western Poetics
Selected Publications
I. Monographs
1．Ling Jianhou, et al.. An Investigative Study on the Public Sphere of Contemporary Russian Arts. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2023;
2．Ling Jianhou & Yang Bo. Vocabulary and Speech: The Integration of Russian Lexicology and Literary Theory. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2011;
3．Ling Jianhou. Bakhtin’s Philosophical Thoughts and Textual Analysis Methods. Beijing: Peking University Press, October 2007;
II. Translated Works
1．Participated in the translation of Volumes 2 and 4 (1998 edition, Hebei Education Press), as well as Volumes 1, 2, 4 (2009 edition, Hebei Education Press) and Volumes 1, 2, 3, and Supplementary Volume 1 (2024 edition, Shaanxi Normal University Press) of The Complete Works of Mikhail Bakhtin (compiled and edited by Qian Zhongwen);
2．First Translator of 20th-Century Russian Literature (edited by V. A. Agenosov), Beijing: Renmin University of China Press, 2001;
3．Third Translator of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn), Nanjing: Yilin Press, 2002;
4．Participated in the translation of Parts 7 and 8 of Volume 8 of A History of World Literature (compiled by the Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russia), Shanghai: Shanghai Translation Publishing House, 2013;
5．First Translator of Kazyonaya Skazka (by Oleg Pavlov), Harbin: Heilongjiang University Press, 2014;
6．Participated in the translation of 7 essays in Russian Scholars on Mikhail Bakhtin (edited by Zhou Qichao and Wang Jiaxing), Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2014;
7．Second Translator of Artistic Discourse: The Method of Artistic Factor Analysis (by V.I.Tyupa), Beijing: Peking University Press, 2016;
III. Papers
1．Ling Jianhou. “A New Paradigm for Novel Studies: Notes on the Second Volume of the Third Chinese Edition of Mikhail Bakhtin’s Collected Works,” in Herald of Donetsk National University (Series D: Philology and Psychology), 2025, No.5 (in English);
2．Ling Jianhou. “Mikhail Bakhtin: A Contemporary Portrait,” in Journal of Capital Normal University (Social Sciences Edition), 2025, No.4;
3．Ling Jianhou, Jian Yin. “Qian Zhongwen and Chinese Bakhtin Studies,” in Studia Litterarum, 2025, No.2 (in Russian);
4．Ling Jianhou. “Bakhtin Studies in Russian: An Open Intellectual System,” in Social Sciences Newspaper, May 29, 2025;
5．Hong Xin, Ling Jianhou. “Characteristics and Insights of the Russian Mythopoetics,” in Russian Teaching in China, 2025, No.1;
6．Ling Jianhou. “The Confidence of Intellectuals,” in Wendian Journal, Vol.2, 2025;
7．Ling Jianhou. “From Linguistic Units to Speech Communication Units: Bakhtin’s Concept of Discourse and Its Intersubjective Foundation,” in Zhejiang Social Sciences, 2024, No.12 (this paper was reprinted in Foreign Literature Studies [Renmin University of China’s Journal Reprints], 2025, No.3);
8．Ling Jianhou. “Translator’s Preface: Bakhtin’s Novel Theory and Its New Research Paradigm,” in The Collected Works of Mikhail Bakhtin (Vol.2), compiled and edited by Qian Zhongwen, Shaanxi Normal University Press, 2024;
9．Ling Jianhou. “Bakhtin’s Chronotope and Its Cross-Disciplinary Application,” in Foreign Literary Theory and Comparative Poetics, Vol.10, 2024;
10．Ling, Jianhou. “Categories of Poetics: A Study of the Russian School,” in Studia Litterarum, 2024, No.2 (in English);
11．Ling Jianhou. “Writers’ Literary Theory and Exploration of Poetics: On the New Path for Constructing the ‘Chinese School of Russian Literature Studies’,” in Study and Exploration, 2024, No.5;
12．Ling Jianhou. “A Genetic Study of the ‘Russian School of Poetics’: Taking the Entry ‘Poetics’ in Brokgauz and Yefron Encyclopedic Dictionary as an Example,” in Russian Teaching in China, 2024, No.2;
13．Ling Jianhou. “20th-Century Russian Literature’ in China and Its Compiler V.V.Agenosov,” in Russian Classical and Non-Classical Literature: Text, Context, Reception: the Collection of Papers from the International Scientific-Practical Conference, edited by T. G. Kuchina, A. S. Bokareva, et al., Yaroslavl’: RIO YAGPU, 2024 (in Russian);
14．Ling Jianhou. “A Synthesis of Theories on Multi-Thematic Literary History: A Review of The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel,” in Eurasian Humanities Studies, 2024, No.2;
15．Hong Xin, Ling Jianhou. “The Story Behind Russian ‘Poetics’: An Interview with Professor Ling Jianhou,” in Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, 2024, No.5;
16．Yang Yan, Ling Jianhou. “The Transformation of Poetics from the Perspective of Linguistics: Taking Potebnya’s Influence on the Russian Formalist School as an Example,” in Fudan Journal of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 2024, No.1;
17．Ling Jianhou. “From ‘Literary Lectures’ to ‘Monographs on Poetics’: A Review of Reading and Being Read,” in China Book Review, 2024, No.1;
18．Ling Jianhou. “Russian Novels: Classics and Traditions,” in Social Scientist, 2023, No.11;
19．Ling Jianhou. “Liejin, Inventories, and Russian Nominative Poetry,” in Russian Literature and Art, 2023, No.4;
20．Ling Jianhou. “Categories of Poetics: A Retrieval of Modern Russian Literary Theory,” in Research of Foreign Literature Trends, 2023, No.5 (this paper was reprinted in Foreign Literature Studies [Renmin University of China’s Journal Reprints], 2024, No.1, and Literary Research Digest, 2024, No.1);
21．Ling Jianhou. “Distant Reading Theory and Macroanalysis: A New Method of Literary Criticism in the Digital Humanities Era,” in Literary Theory and Criticism, 2023, No.5 (this paper was reprinted in Literary Theory [Renmin University of China’s Journal Reprints], 2024, No.1);
22．Yu Xiaorui, Ling Jianhou. “Big Data and Mathematical Modeling: On Matthew Jockers’ Macroanalysis,” in Social Scientist, 2023, No.9;
23．Ling Jianhou. “Bakhtin in Dialogue with Traditional Russian Culture: With a Review of Wang Zhigeng’s Bakhtin’s Dialogical Theory in the Context of Russian National Culture,” in Culture and Poetics, 2022, No. 1;
24．Ling Jianhou. “Pushkin’s Shakespeare Complex: On the Adaptation of Measure for Measure in Angelo”, in Foreign Literature Studies, 2022, No.1;
25．Jiang Ying, Ling Jianhou. “Qian Zhongwen’s Reception of Bakhtin,” in New Horizons in Literary Theory and Aesthetics, edited by Jin Yuanpu, Zhang Laimin, et al., Beijng: China Social Sciences Press, 2022;
26．Ling Jianhou. “Modern Western European Novels and Pushkin’s Novelization Creation,” in Eurasian Humanities Studies, 2022, No.4;
27．Ling Jianhou. “The Artistry of the Novel: A Reconsideration of the Origins of Bakhtin’s Poetics Thought,” in Jiangxi Social Sciences, 2021, No.8;
28．Ling Jianhou. “Rethinking the Categories of Russian Literaturovedenie: Formation, Development, and Achievements,” in Literary Theory and Criticism, 2021, No.1;
29．Ling Jianhou. “Scientific Poetics and an Open Framework: On the Characteristics of the Series ‘Studies on 20th-Century Russian Trends of Poetics’,” in Literary Theory and Criticism, 2020, No.4;
30．Ling Jianhou. “Public Sphere of Contemporary Art: In Search of a New Approach in Art Studies,” in Herald of Omsk University, 2020, Vol.25, No.4 (in Russian);
31．Guo Jingyuan, Ling Jianhou. “The Characteristics and Academic Contributions of ‘Holistic Poetics’: On New Achievements of Bakhtin Studies in China,” in Russian Literature and Art, 2020, No.4;
32．Ling Jianhou. “Igor’ Shaitanov on the Novelization Tendency of ‘Angelo’,” in Eurasian Humanities Research, 2020, No.4;
33．Ling Jianhou. “Bakhtin’s Novel Theory: Background, Threads, and Characteristics,” in Social Science Front, 2019, No.5 (the paper was reprinted in Xinhua Digest, 2019, No.23, and China Social Sciences Digest, 2019, No.10);
34．Zhang Lingyan, Ling Jianhou. “New Trends of Bakhtin Studies in China in the ‘After-Theory’ Era,” in Foreign Language Teaching, 2018, No.3;
35．Ling Jianhou. “The Form of Poetics and the Pursuit of Philosophy: The Academic Achievements of Bakhtin’s Novel Theory,” in Jiangxi Social Sciences, 2018, No.10 (the paper was reprinted in Literary Theory [Renmin University of China’s Journal Reprints], 2019, No.2);
36．Ling Jianhou. “Grasping the Trend of Professional Development to Promote Disciplinary Reform: 2017 Thematic Report of the Foreign Literature Professional Committee,” in Thematic Observations on the Reform and Development of Higher Education, edited by the Chinese Association of Higher Education, Beijing: Beijing Institute of Technology Press, 2018;
37．Ling Jianhou. “The Public Sphere of Arts and New Approaches to Museum Research,” in Social Scientist, 2017, No.10;
38．Ling Jianhou. “An Investigative Study of the Public Sphere of Contemporary Russian Arts,” in Journal of the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2017, No.3 (the “Abstract” was reprinted in Digest of Liberal Arts in Chinese Universities, 2017, No.6);
39．Zhang Lingyan, Ling Jianhou. “Systematic, Diverse, Pioneering: Review of Chekhov’s Drama Studies in China (2004—2015),” in Journal of Nanjing University (Philosophy, Humanities and Social Sciences), 2017, No.5;
40．Ling Jianhou, Yue Wenxia. “Five Dimensions of the Cross-Cultural Travel of Chekhov’s Drama,” in European and American Literature Review, Vol.11, “European and American Dramatic Literature and Culture”, edited by Luo Tian, Beijing: People’s Literature Publishing House, 2017.
Research Projects
1. Major Project of the National Social Science Fund of China: “A Study on the Russian School of Poetics”, passed the mid-term review;
2. Key Project of the National Social Science Fund of China: “Collation and Research of Important Publications on Bakhtin Studies in Russian”, concluded with an “Excellent” rating;
3. General Project of the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Ministry of Education of China: “An Investigative Study on the Public Sphere of Contemporary Russian Arts”, concluded;
4. Sub-project of the Major Project of the National Social Science Fund of China: “Translation and Study of The Cambridge History of Russian Literature (9 Volumes)”––Sub-project Title “Translation and Study of The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel”, concluded;
5. General Project of the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Ministry of Education of China: “The Tendency of Linguistic Poetics in Russian Philological Studies”, concluded;
6. General Project of the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Ministry of Education of China: “Vocabulary and Speech: The Integration of Russian Lexicology and Literary Studies”, concluded;
7. Post-funding Project of the National Social Science Fund of China: “Bakhtin’s Philosophical Thoughts and Novel Poetics”, concluded;
Social Affiliations
1. Vice President, Bakhtin Studies Branch of the Chinese Association of Chinese and Foreign Literary Theory;
2. Expert Member, Translators Association of China (TAC);
3. Associate Editor-in-Chief, Eurasian Humanities Studies;
4. Member of the Editorial Board, Foreign Literary Theory and Comparative Poetics;
5. Member of the Editorial Board, Foreign Literature Studies (Renmin University of China Journal Reprints)
Honors and Awards
1. The monograph Bakhtin’s Philosophical Thoughts and Textual Analysis Methods won the First Prize in the 11th Outstanding Achievements in Humanities and Social Sciences of Peking University;
2. Oasis Scholar of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, Shihezi University (2015—2018);
3. Short-Term Scholar of the Shaanxi Province “Hundred Talents Program”, Xi’an International Studies University (2015—2020).
Overseas Experience
1. Exchange Student, Department of Philology, Volgograd State University (1989—1990);
2. Senior Visiting Scholar, Department of Philology, Moscow State Pedagogical University (2003—2004);
3. September 6–10, 2017, 16th International Bakhtin Academic Conference, 45-minute keynote speech.
