thought on Chinese litterature
By 19901226
@19901226 (12)
China
April 1, 2010 9:52am CST
Chinese litterature is so beautiful why after all these years ,no onr who wins a noble prize?it occured to me when i just had my chinese literature class.
4 responses
@yumanal (143)
• China
6 Apr 10
The first reason is language ,since chinese is hard to translate to english or other language.Chinese literature is a branch of flower,but it had been translated to english ,it had been changed to plastic-flower.
Second is thinking ,what chinese thinks isn't favourate by western people.
So chinese write could't win noble prize.
@pierrella (1087)
• Philippines
5 Apr 10
I don't know either. I've studies Chinese for 13 years and I agree that the literature is really good. There are stories about emperors and dynasties. There are also about non-living things that were given life to.
@Simon1223 (903)
• China
1 Apr 10
Many people have asked the same question. In my view, an important reason is that it's a committee of some westeners decides who could get the noble prize. Due to the cultural diversity, it's difficult for them to understand the beauty of Chinese literature. Such beauty will disappear if the Chinese literatures are translated into other languages such as English .
