On December 20, 2011, Lilia Nikolaevna Borokh, a veteran of the Chinese Department of the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, died. She was a prominent Russian sinologist, one of the largest researchers of the revolutionary movements and social thought of China at the fateful turning point of the late XIX-early XX centuries, the author of solid monographs and profound scientific articles. Lilia Nikolaevna was born on August 21, 1933 in Arkhangelsk in the family of a serviceman. In 1957, after graduating from the Institute of Oriental Languages at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, she began her research work first at the Institute of Chinese Studies, and from 1961 at the China Department of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences/RAS, where until 2009 she held the position of a leading researcher, and from 1992 to 2004 - head. the ideology and culture sector. L. N. Borokh has always been distinguished by a scrupulous approach to primary sources and historiography. Over the 50 years of her scientific activity, she has made an invaluable contribution to the study of socio-political and philosophical thought in China. Starting with the study of the origins of the Chinese revolution and Sun Yat-sen's early political activities, she later paid considerable attention to the fundamental problems of the development and transformation of Chinese spiritual culture. A real breakthrough in the study of China was her study of the process of revision of traditional Confucianism by Chinese thinkers and public and political figures under the influence of Western ideas at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. L. N. Borokh was one of the organizers and scientific editors of a series of innovative publications of the Department of China on topical issues of Chinese socio-political and philosophical thought that resisted officialdom and had a significant public response: "China: traditions and modernity" (Mos ... Read more