The translation and dissemination of "The Classic of Tea" in Russia

this study is fundamentally positioned as an act of methodological transcendence. Its goal is not to catalog the various translated versions of the "The Classic of Tea," but rather to analyze its semiotic biography in Russia-that is, the process of its transformation from a foreign text into an element of the cultural landscape. The novelty of the work is claimed to have a three-tiered structure. At the first level, it abandons a linear historical narrative in favor of a multidimensional model that describes how historical transmissions condition contemporary interpretative strategies. At the second level, the focus shifts to the operation of "cultural reconstruction"-a set of translation techniques designed to provoke semantic adaptation (for example, the radical recoding of the concept of "tea ceremony"). At the third, macro-level, the text is examined as a commodity (the logic of the publishing market), as an event (festivals, exhibitions), and finally, as a factor in the collective imagination. This perspective allows the dissemination of the "Classic" to be interpreted not as a passive penetration, but as an active, dialogic process directly relevant to the technologies of cultural influence and diplomacy.

"The Classic of Tea", the Russian language, translation, dissemination, cultural reconstruction, dialogical process