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Why The West Fails To Understand Chinese Literature

Posted at 8:01AM Thursday 03 Jan 2013

I have always used the comparison between Western and Chinese art — the former requiring a single perspective, complete with vanishing point; the latter having none at all — to illustrate the divergent cultural approaches to story-telling. These can lead to vastly different views of our shared world.

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