论俄罗斯东正教对中国的影响

Russian Orthodoxy's Influence on Modern China

俄罗斯东正教对近代中国的影响,十月革命以前直接影响为主但影响甚微,其原因一是俄罗斯东正教传教团来华的主要目的是为沙俄政府的外交和侵略政策服务;二是俄国东正教传教士没有一种强势的物质和文化作依托,所以很难自觉和有意识地去扮演先进文化传播者的角色。十月革命后以间接影响为主而影响甚广,如东正教的拜神祈祷礼仪和封闭保守意识等,以俄罗斯文学为媒介或载体,向中国社会渗透或传播的轨迹相当清晰。

Before the October Revolution, Russian Orthodoxy exerted direct influence on modern China, but the influence was slight because it only served as a tool of czarist Russia's diplomacy and aggression and couldn't act as propagator of advanced culture without strong material and cultural support. After the October Revolution, the stream of Orthodox rites and conservativeness, with Bolshevism (later on Stalinism) and Russian literature as the intermedium or carrier, permeated through China's spiritual and cultural soil and exerted profound influence on it.