Международная научная конференция ЮВА в СПбГУ-65

Международная научная конференция, посвященная 65-й годовщине начала изучения языков ЮВА в нашей стране 216 Маяцкий Д. И. D. I. Maiatckii (St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, d.mayatsky@spbu.ru) QING ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PEOPLES OF SOUTH-EAST CHINA IN THE COLLECTION OF RARE BOOKS STORED IN THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY OF ST. PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY  1 Abstract: The report discusses one woodcut and four handwritten ethnographic albums of the second half of the 18 th and the first half of the 19 th centuries, stored in the Academic Library named after M. Gorky of St. Petersburg State University (AL SPbSU). They depict scenes from everyday life of representatives of small ethnic groups, inhabiting the southern Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Guanxi-Zhuang Autonomous Region. The historical circumstances of their creation are revealed. Their composition and content are analyzed and compared, unique features are found out. Keywords: China, Qing era, national minorities, miao, “Huang Qing zhi gong tu”. 1 The reported study was funded by RFBR according to the research project № 19–09–00218 «The Chinese Historico-EthnographicAlbum “Illustrated Tributaries of the Qing Empire” (“Huang Qing zhi gong tu”) and its Role in Studying the Chinese Worldview on Other Countries and Nations in the mid-18th Century»