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3. The Trends in Chinese Literature of XX and XXI Centuries Issues of Far Eastern Literatures: Materials of the 11th International Scientific Cconference. June 27–29, 2024 42 Dvortsova Aleksandra (Lugansk State Pedagogical University), sdvorcova@gmail.com Dong Qing’s Collection “Readers” as a Form of Coexistence between Television and Literature China still pays much attention to television as a means of shaping public opinion, which also affects book publishing. Novellisation is quite common in contemporary Chinese literature. The collection “Readers”, published in Russian translated by A. A. Monastyrsky in 2021, is a textual adaptation of sev- eral episodes of the TV programme 《朗读者》 , broadcasted on CCTV in 2017–2018, is also a textual work based on visual materials. If the purpose of the programme's creation, according to its host, Dong Qing, was to cultivate reading taste and increase respect for knowledge, national traditions and social achievements among the Chinese, the release of the Russian version of the collection is intended to elicit a similar response to Chinese literature and culture from the Russian readers. In this regard, the compilers deliberately did not include works of world literature mentioned in the show, and concentrated on texts of the 20th–21st centuries, excluding classical Chinese literature. Dong Qing’s guests come from all walks of life, from a backwoods official to the first astronaut. The ratio of male to female guests interviewed in the collection (2:1) reflects the tendency for male opinion to be perceived as authoritative. The age of 2/3 of the guests (from 40 years old and above) creates an idea of the target audience of the project, which includes middle-aged and older people. Out of the 17 works, the predominant number is essays (7 pieces) and letters (5 pieces). Only 2 guests are professional writers (Mai Jia, Liu Zhengyun), but 6 guests read their own works in total. Thematically, the works can be divided into 5 groups: family; Motherland and the praise of its achievements and riches; mentoring and the role of the teacher; reflec- tion on the experience of the Cultural Revolution; the problems of poaching. The collection “Readers” is a means of popularizing Chinese literature both in China and abroad, created from the symbiosis of television and book publishing. Keywords: Dong Qing, TVprogramme, “Readers”, modern Chinese literature, trends in Chinese literature,. Dyshenov Alexander (Banzarov Buryat State University), kevin5@yandex.ru Lin Yutang and Christianity: Meta-position and “Tangle of Contradictions” This article will discuss the peculiarities of Lin Yutang’s (1895–1976) understanding of Christianity, which he was “surrounded” by throughout his life: he was born in the province Fujian in a Christian family where his father served as a pastor, while studying at St. John's University in Shanghai, he abandoned Christian views in favor of "pagan-humanism", however while working at Tsinghua University, he still conducted Sunday Bible classes to students, he married a Christian, continued his education in the USA (Harvard) and Germany (Jena and Leipzig), and from 1936 he practically left mainland China and spent his life in regions of “Christian influ- ence”: until 1966 — in the USA, where he returned to the Church in 1959 , and until 1976 — on Taiwan. His experience of leaving and returning to Christianity is perhaps the main source of resolving the “tangle of con- tradictions” of his personality and creativity — a problem that remains open to this day in Linxue (Lin Yutang studies). Lin Yutang's interpretation of the teachings of Christ has its own characteristics, so much so that it can give rise to doubts about the orthodoxy of his Christian views, with the rejection of the dogma of the “immacu- late conception”, the denial of hell, etc. However, his criticism of church methods of spreading Christianity in China, indeed, has serious arguments that are relevant to this day, influencing the quality of dialogue between Western countries and China; if we take into account his contribution to the “spread” of Chinese culture around the world, it becomes obvious that the significance of his personality and creativity has a special value, recog- nized at least in the unrelenting public attention to the book “Chinese. My country and my people,” and such