/lit/ - Literature

>>9646929
Mao has been acknowledged to be pretty great in the arts even by his enemies (lmaoing @ you Hitler), but of course the proper way to experience his poems is through his much lauded calligraphy でござる
Though I find it an interesting piece of contention how apart from their very obvious different in artistic style the other largest thing most noticeable in Eastern paintings vs the West is that they include poems and aphorisms on them. It's also obvious how without the symbology and condensed nature of Chinese characters, putting poems on Western paintings with language based on an alphabet would never work.
I haven't posted in this thread yet, but I do like the modernism movement in China just as well as modernism in the West, I can't say I approve Gu Cheng murdering his wife with an ax and anyways much prefer his contemporary Bei Dao (my mother was a large fan of his when she was in fucking middle school, though now she prefers classicism so I guess the influence carried over).

>Dad: 三国演义
>Mom: 红楼梦
>Brother: The Grapes of Wrath
>Me: Der Zauberberg
Who else here /globalized/?