“In the Chinese literary history, there are no epic works as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. But Chinese storytelling, an art expression with some characteristics of epics, has more signi cant literary and artistic value...“In the Chinese literary history, there are no epic works as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. But Chinese storytelling, an art expression with some characteristics of epics, has more signi cant literary and artistic values than Western epics as it bears more rich and diverse information about political, economic, cultural and military evolutions of Chinese society over past several thousand years.” – By the展开更多
文摘“In the Chinese literary history, there are no epic works as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. But Chinese storytelling, an art expression with some characteristics of epics, has more signi cant literary and artistic values than Western epics as it bears more rich and diverse information about political, economic, cultural and military evolutions of Chinese society over past several thousand years.” – By the