1. Present theoretical approaches to comparative culture. Key notions: reception, transfer; rewriting, adaptation, serial works; defamiliarisation, imagology. 2. Propose an outline of comparative cultural history, a study of the circulation of works and ideas between China, France and Russia. Analyse the transformations and metamorphoses of Chinese works transferred to France and Russia. 3. Study travel writing as cultural relations. 1. Real journeys (diaries, memoirs, letters) and fictional journeys in foreign worlds. 2. Satirical journeys of foreigners in your world. 3. Mystical or cosmic journeys in a utopian or dystopian world.