Dragons without wine: the mythopoetics of Chinese jiu-dao
Journal: Industrii vpečatlenij. Tehnologii sociokulʹturnyh issledovanij.
Year: 2025

This article is devoted to a systemic myopoetic analysis of the phenomenon of wine in the Chinese mentality. The study uses a large body of Russian-language literature, focusing on the specific perception of wine in Chinese semiotics, mythology, and literature. The author concludes that there is currently very little material for a comprehensive mythopoetic analysis of this problem, and that what exists suffers from serious aberrations related to the difficulties of translating Chinese cultural