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Mariia Guleva, Ph.D.
Email: mariia.guleva@ff.cuni.cz |
Mariia Guleva is a lecturer at the Department of Sinology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague). Her Ph.D. thesis, defended in March 2025, was 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).
Publications:
[Accepted, awaiting publication]. “Communist karikatura and manhua: an excursion into cartooning in the Soviet Union, People’s Republic of China, and the Czechoslovak Republic in the 1950s”, in Caricature in Global Perspective, Anna Kollatz and Veruschka Wagner (eds.). [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.“Druzhit i uchit’sia: sotrudnichestvo karikaturistov iz Sovetskogo Soiuza, Kitaia i Chekhoslovakii v 1950-e gg.” (Friendship and learning: exchanges between cartoonists from the Soviet Union, China, and Czechoslovakia in the 1950s), in Puti k nefritovomu istochniku: sbornik statei k 70-letiiu professora N. A. Samoilova (Paths to the Jade Spring: A Festschrift in honour of Professor N. A. Samoylov’s 70th anniversary), Anna M. Kharitonova (ed.). St. Petersburg: Izdatel’stvo RKhGA, 2025, pp. 341–366. (in Russian)
“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, 2024, pp. 247–263.
“Sinology in Russia during the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods: Research and Politics”, in Journal of Chinese History, 2023, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 591–611. https://doi.org/10.1017/jch.2021.42
“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, 2021, no. 3, pp. 79–106. https://doi.org/10.14712/24646830.2022.5
“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, 2021, no. 2, pp. 37–82. https://doi.org/10.25365/jeacs.2021.2.37-82
“Amitié sino-soviétique et ennemis communs dans les dessins de Krokodil et Manhua des années 1950”, in La Revue Russe, 2021, no. 57, pp. 79–97. (in French, translated by Evelyne Enderlein). https://doi.org/10.3406/russe.2021.3095
“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, 2020, pp. 317–363. https://doi.org/10.11588/xabooks.661
“Kitaiskaia karikatura-manhua o vtoroi italo-efiopskoi voine i grazhdanskoi voine v Ispanii” (Chinese manhua cartoons on the Second Italo-Ethiopian war and the Spanish Civil war), in Uchenye zapiski Petrozavodskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta (Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University), 2019, no. 8 (185), pp. 16–22. (in Russian)
“Sovetskaia diplomatiia i kitaisko-iaponskii konflikt v izobrazhenii Krokodila i Shidaj man’hua, 1931–1937” (Soviet diplomacy and Sino-Japanese conflict as depicted by Krokodil and Shidai Manhua, 1931–1937), in Obshchestvo i gosudarstvo v Kitae (Society and State in China), 2018, Vol. XLVIII, pt. 2, Moscow: IV RAN, pp. 900–932. (in Russian)
“Russkoe i sovetskoe v izobrazhenii shanhaiskogo illustrirovannogo zhurnala Shidaj man’hua, 1934–1937” (Russian and Soviet as depicted in Shanghai Shidai Manhua illustrated magazine, 1934–1937), in Uchenye zapiski Petrozavodskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta (Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University), 2018, no. 7 (176), pp. 7–14. (in Russian)
“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, 2017, Vol. 40, pp. 97–131.
“‘Vechnye izgnanniki’: izobrazhenie russkikh emigrantov v kitaiskom zhurnale Shidai manhua (1931–1937)” (“Eternal exiles”: depiction of Russian emigrants in Chinese Shidai Manhua magazine, 1934–1937), in Klio, 2017, no. 11 (131), pp. 30–37. (in Russian)
“Politicheskiie prichiny svorachivaniia konstitutsionnoi reformy v Kitaie v 1948–1949 gg.” (Political reasons behind the cessation of the Constitutional reform in China, 1948–1949), in Uchenye zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta, seriia Gumanitarnye nauki (Proceedings of Kazan University. Humanities Series), 2016, Vol. 158, pt. 6, pp. 1552–1565. (in Russian)
“Sinii french, darionaia shliapa: Den Siaopin v zhurnale Krokodil perioda sovetsko-kitaiskogo okhlazhdeniia” (Blue jacket, gifted hat: Deng Xiaoping in Krokodil magazine during the Sino-Soviet split), in Obshchestvo i gosudarstvo v Kitae (Society and State in China), Vol. XLVI, pt. 2, Moscow: IV RAN, 2016, pp. 582–592. (in Russian)
“Sovetsko-kitaiskaia druzhba v ‘zerkale’ zhurnala Krokodil” (Sino-Soviet friendship in the Krokodil’s “mirror”), in Rossiia i Vostochnaia Aziia cherez 70 let posle okonchaniia Vtoroi mirovoi voiny (Russia and Eastern Asia in 70 years after the End of World War II), Moscow: IDV RAN, 2016, pp. 191–197. (in Russian)
“Problemy konstitutsionnoi reformy pozdnerespublicanskogo Kitaia v otechestvennoi nauchnoi literature” (Russian studies of the constitutional reforms in late republican China), in Otechestvennaia istoriografiia KNR: nekotorye napravleniia (Russian historiography of the PRC: some trends), Natalia L. Mamaeva, Irina N. Sotnikova, eds., Moscow: Nauka, 2015, pp. 9–23. (in Russian)
“‘Ruki proch’ ot Kitaia!’: kitaiskie druzia i vragi na stranitsah zhurnala Krokodil, 1922–1950” (“Hands off China!”: Chinese friends and foes in Krokodil magazine, 1922–1950), in Obshchestvo i gosudarstvo v Kitae (Society and State in China), 2015, Vol. XLV, pt. 2, Moscow: IV RAN, pp. 706–729. (in Russian)
“Chinese friends of the Soviet people in the Krokodil magazine (1922–1949)”, in The Silk Road. Collection of papers from the 3rd international conference on Chinese Studies “The Silk Road”, Sofia: Confucius Institute, 2015, pp. 172–177.
“Zhizn’ Chan Kaishi v illustraciiakh zhurnala Krokodil” (The life of Chiang Kai-shek in Krokodil’s illustrations), in Rossiia–Kitai: istoriia i kul’tura (Russia–China: History and Culture), Kazan’: “Jaz” publishers, 2015, pp. 68–72. (in Russian)
“Rabochie, bortsy, kommunisty: kitaiskie druz’ia sovetskikh liudei v zhurnale Krokodil, 1922–1949 gg. ” (Workers, fighters, communists: Chinese friends of Soviet people in Krokodil magazine, 1922–1949), in Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia i dialog kul’tur (International Relations and the Dialogue of Cultures), 2015, no. 4, pp. 277– 286. (in Russian)