/lit/ - Literature

>>11967105
I do. Chinese poetry is vastly superior to anything I've read in my own Muttersprache or English, but keep in mind that classical Chinese is essentially a language on its own, so it'll be a while before you can start properly enjoying Chinese classics/poetry.
>>11969128
I'd imagine the hardest part of translating Chinese is its succintness. Word forming in Chinese is fairly easy compared to other languages, so, alas, Chinese has a mind numbingly large of very specific vocabulary which can only be translated as long-ish noun phrases in English.
>>11963173
Nonsense. Chinese culture is alive and well, minus some (very) unsavory bits that gradually died out starting with the Xinhai revolution and finally did so with Mao.