Mariia Guleva is a Ph.D. student and an assistant at the Department of Sinology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague). Her thesis is devoted to researching Manhua magazine in the early years of the PRC through the magazine’s contacts with the party / state, society, and international counterparts. Mariia previously studied the cartooning practices in the 1930s China, especially the visual depictions of Russia and the West in those media. She teaches subjects related to China’s 20th century history and politics, as well as visual mass media such as cartoons, animation, and comics. Her research interests further include, on the one hand, the matters of cultural and ideological connections across the socialist camp and, on the other hand, the application of visual sources for the study of history and society.
Mariia studied at St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (2004–2010) and had internships at Changsha University of Science and Technology (2005 and 2006), Tianjin University (2008–2009), Fudan University (2011–2012), and Heidelberg University (2022). She taught subjects related to Chinese language and China’s modern history at St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (2010–2019), St. Petersburg State University (2017–2019), and the St. Petersburg branch of the Higher School of Economics (2014–2015).
Guleva, Mariia. [Accepted, awaiting publication]. “Communist karikatura and manhua: an excursion into cartooning in the Soviet Union, People’s Republic of China, and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in the 1950s”, in Caricature in global perspective, Anna Kollatz and Veruschka Wagner (eds.), Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
———. [Accepted, awaiting publication]. “The Spanish Civil War in Soviet and Chinese cartoons”, in The Edinburgh Companion to the Spanish Civil War and Visual Culture, Eugenia Afinoguénova, Silvina Schammah Gesser, and Robert Lubar Messeri (eds.), Edinburgh University Press.
———. 2024. “Cartoon as Weapon and as Victim: Instructive and Critical Texts in Manhua Magazine, 1950–1960”, in Caricatures en Extrême-Orient: Origines, rencontres, métissages, Laurent Baridon, Marie Laureillard (eds.). Paris: Hémisphères Éditions, pp. 247–263.
———. 2022. “Sinology in Russia during the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods: Research and Politics”, in Journal of Chinese History, online, pp. 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1017/jch.2021.42
———. 2021. “Through the Looking Glass of Intimate Friendship and Common Enemies: Images of Sino–Soviet Relations in Chinese and Soviet Political Cartoons of the 1950s”, in Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Philologica, no. 3, pp. 79–106. https://doi.org/10.14712/24646830.2022.5
———. 2021. “How to Deal with a Good Child? Prescribed Normality in Images of Children and Child-Adult Relations in Manhua Magazine, 1950–1960”, in The Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies, no. 2, pp. 37–82. https://doi.org/10.25365/jeacs.2021.2.37-82
———. 2020. “Visual perceptions of the West and Russia in Chinese cartoon magazines of the 1930s”, in Chinese Perceptions of Russia and the West: Changes, Continuities, and Contingencies during the Twentieth Century, Gotelind Müller, Nikolay Samoylov (eds.), Heidelberg, Berlin: CrossAsia-eBooks, pp. 317–363. https://doi.org/10.11588/xabooks.661
———. 2017. “Strangled China, Mighty Russia: The Sino-Japanese Conflict in Krokodil and Soviet Diplomacy in Shidai Manhua, 1931–1937”, in Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies, Vol. 40, pp. 97–131.