Susanna Lim
Assistant Professor
Phone: 541) 346-5414
Email: susannal@uoregon.edu
I am a scholar of Russian literature and culture. My research focus is Russian literary and cultural representations of China and Japan during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I examine how Russian thoughts and images of East Asia relate to Russia’s own ambiguous identity between Europe and Asia and its status as one of the largest overland empires in history. I am particularly fascinated by how various Russian writers, thinkers, and artists responded to the modernization of East Asia beginning in the latter half of the nineteenth century, a process strikingly exemplified in the shocking Russian defeat in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. My publications include “Chinese Europe: Alexander Herzen and the Russian Image of China” (Intertexts, 2006); “Between Spiritual Self and Other: Vladimir Solov’ev and the Question of East Asia,” (Slavic Review, 2008); and “Whose Orient Is It?: Frigate Pallada and Ivan Goncharov’s Voyage to the Far East,” (Slavic and East European Journal, 2009). I am currently at work writing a book-length study of China and Japan in the Russian cultural imagination.
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