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The article examines the reception of S. Esenin’s works in China. The author considers how Esenin’s works and information about the Russian poet himself appeared in China, summarizes the experience of translations and Esenin studies in China, systematizes the general characteristics of various stages in Esenin studies in China, outlines and comments on the main research points of view; pays attention to studying various genres of Esenin’s poetry in China, as well as updates an overview of translations and researches of the poet’s work in China up to 2025, which helps to gain an insight into this theme in China today. Comparing Chinese Esenin studies of different periods, the author concludes: while researchers of the past century focused on certain topics and traditional research paradigms, the researchers of Esenin’s life and creative work in recent years in China have gradually begun to demonstrate diversification of scholarly viewpoints and interdisciplinary approach. The article gives an overview of studying Esenin’s work by Chinese literary critics in different theoretical paradigms: studying Esenin’s poems from the point of view of narratology, comparative analysis of Esenin’s works and such Chinese poets as Zang Kejia, Ai Qing, Dai Wanshu, Peng Yanjiao, studying Esenin’s poetry in terms of lexicology and pragmatics: the analysis of lexico-semantic paradigms and their functions, the analysis of Russian cultural connotations of Esenin’s poetic words, building their pragmatic contexts, as well as the linguistic and cultural picture of the world presented in the poet’s work, research from the point of view of linguoculturology and conceptosphere analysis at different levels, consideration of the ecological concept and ecopoetic features of Esenin’s poetry, etc.