ФОРМУВАННЯ ОБРАЗУ ЛЕСІ УКРАЇНКИ В КИТАЙСЬКОМОВНОМУ ЛІТЕРАТУРНОМУ ПРОСТОРІ: ПСИХОЛІНГВІСТИЧНІ ТА СОЦІОКУЛЬТУРНІ ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ВЗАЄМОДІЇ МІЖ АВТОРОМ І ПЕРЕКЛАДАЧЕМ

Abstract

Background. In the 20th century, Chinese literary scholars, in particular, Mao Dun, Ge Baoquan, and others, became actively interested in Lesya Ukrainka's work, which resulted in a number of translations of the writer's works into Chinese in the 1920s and 1990s. Taking into account the historical context of events in Chinese society during the 20th century, as well as analyzing the themes of the translated works of the Ukrainian poetess, the ideological prerequisites for the creation of these works were revealed. This research article focuses on the peculiarities of psycholinguistic interaction between the image of the author and the translator and analyses the impact of this interaction on the formation of a communicative link between them. In addition, the article analyses the image of women in China in the early 20th century, which allows us to identify analogies between the images of Lesia Ukrainka and the nineteenth-century Chinese poetess Qiu Jin (秋瑾，1875-1907), known for her anti-Manchu and revolutionary views. Methods. By using the imagological method and the method of contextual analysis, we analyzed the image of Lesia Ukrainka in Chinese culture, studied the historical background of its formation and the general trend of the development of the image of a woman in twentieth-century China. The historical and literary method and the method of data analysis were also used to compare the images of Lesya Ukrainka and Qiu Jin in the Chinese literary space. Results. The study found that most of Lesia Ukrainka's translations conveyed the ideas of love and longing for the country, patriotism, and the struggle for independence, which resonated with the ideological ideas of China in the 20th century and the image of an exemplary Chinese woman of that time, it was also emphasized in Soviet literary historiography (M. Zerov, S. Yefremov), which often served as a source for Chinese writers, thus forming a clichéd image of Lesya Ukrainka as a strong revolutionary fighting for the ideas of her country. Nevertheless, the kinship of Lesia Ukrainka's and Qiu Jin's creative leitmotifs, experiences and life paths complemented the already formed image of the Ukrainian writer with elements of heroism and poetry borrowed from the figure of Qiu Jin, which gave Lesia and her work in the Chinese literary environment elements of romanticism. Conclusions . In conclusion, the article is put forward that it is the association with Qiu Jin that has significantly influenced the images and symbolism of Chinese translations of Lesia Ukrainka's poetry, which requires further detailed study of the texts of translations from the point of view of the imagological aspect.