In Search of Tradition: The Transformation of Soviet Sinology in 1960s-1970s
The authors of this article examine the institutional and conceptual transformations of soviet sinology in the 1960s and 1970s. They argue that external political and ideological factors have had an important impact on this process. But these factors led to the fact that the focus of soviet sinologists was the problem of tradition. This conceptual turn was supplemented by institutional changes, and in 1960s new departments related to the study of the tradition appeared in the soviet scientific institutes.