"The Tale of Genji and Chinese Traditional Culture"

Author: Yao Jizhong
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: The Tale of Genji is one of the earliest long novels in the history of world literature. It is rooted in the fertile soil of Japanese literature while also incorporating the essence of traditional Chinese culture. However, we have overlooked the achievements of our neighboring country, and our understanding of this classic is even less profound than our knowledge of Chaucer, Boccaccio, Rabelais, and other figures in Western culture.