Piotr Machajek

Piotr Machajek

PhD candidate at SWPS University

Sinologist, translator, and literature scholar, specializing in contemporary Chinese literature

The main research interests cover world literature, literary translation, and contemporary Chinese literature. His PhD dissertation aims to describe and analyse the correlations between world literature discourse and its interpretations provided by Chinese scholars, writers, and critics. By applying both close and distant reading methodologies, he examines tropes in Chinese literary texts and the ways in which they are elaborated. His research interest also includes literary theory and cross-cultural transfer of theory and ideas.

China Horizons publications

Chinese society and culture

Chinese society in cultural productions of the Xi Jinping era: key issues and recurring themes

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Chinese society and culture

Cooperation with the Chinese cultural sector in times of growing uncertainties

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