East Asia: Facts and Analytics 2025/4
DOI: 10.24412/2686-7702-2025-4-6-21
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Author
| Popkova Tatyana D. |
| Perm State National Research University |
| ORCID: 0000-0003-0267-217X |
| E-mail: tatyana3@mail.ru |
Abstract
The article aims to provide a cultural understanding of park culture and the urban environment of China, where sculptures depicting children or story compositions on the theme of childhoodare presented. This phenomenon of Chinese culture has remained largely unexplored. For 10 years, the author collected material on this topic in different cities of China, which was recorded in interviews with artists and sculptors, as well as in a collection of photographs. It served as the basis for systematizing and generalizing ideas about the Chinese value system for children and the principles of moral education. The study of this unique way of materially visualizing the Chinese tradition of love for children allows us to identify the features of the national cultural codes of “childhood” and “education”. The author comes to the conclusion that the phenomenological context of park culture reflects the aesthetic, evaluative and playful reality of the Chinese mentality.
Keywords
China, sculpture, art, park culture, images of children, education, traditions
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Popkova T.D. (2025). Skul’pturnyye izobrazheniya detey v kitayskom parkovom i gorodskom landshafte [Sculptural images of children in Chinese park and urban landscapes]. Vostochnaya Aziya: fakty i analitika [East Asia: Facts and Analytics], 7 (4): 6–21. (In Russian). DOI 10.24412/2686-7702-2025-4-6-21
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Dates
| Received Date: | 2025.08.12 |
| Accepted Date: | 2025.08.30 |
| Publication Date: | 2025.12.23 |