>The immense wealth of ancient Chinese literature is mostly

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Chinese literature is only relevant to fucking China. Western Literature is relevant to the entire world, because the Western World formed the world culture.
Sino-centrists are retarded

>>3057768
Harold "I'll stab Potter with my Goethe" Bloom being right as usual. Someone stop the madman!

>>3057781
Learn to speak English retard

Only Chinese could read them. It's mostly Classical Chinese even.

>>3057768
He's saying translations are inaccurate and you will have to learn the original language to fully understand the literature.

>>3057781
wut

>>3057768
>Chinese "literature"

>Ching chong wooong work like ant, ching chong wooo dishonor your family and you're caput!

>>3057781
>Western Literature is relevant to the entire world, because the Western World formed the world culture.
Idk. I'm from a non-white non-Asian country and my country had a focus on Shakespeare when I was in school but nothing else particularly western.

We also had a small look into the romance of the three kingdoms so it's not as lopsided as you think.

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>>3057768
>What did he mean by this?
That good translations of Chinese works are rare, and that the Chinese literary tradition differs from ours.

>>3057781
That's ignorant, you're ignorant. Most of the world isn't Americanized culturally. Go to India, China, Africa, Russia, the Middle East. Shit isn't American.

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tfw the immense wealth of modern Japanese animation is mostly a sphere apart from Western artistic tradition and is rarely conveyed adequately in the translations available to us