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Which country in Oriental Asia has been producing the best literature in recent times?

>> No.7021522

This is only an interesting question if you have knowledge of the orient outside of China and Japan.

>> No.7021670

>>7021513
japan

>> No.7022487
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7022487

I always wondered why worst Korea is so shit in literature. I mean, they have no more censorship than Japan, they are educated etc. Or does nobody translate them ?

>> No.7022501

>>7021513
'oriental'

>> No.7022505

>>7022487
id bet the translation has something to do with it. at any rate, i think the answer to OP's question isnt china. prolly japan

>> No.7022508

>>7021513

Well Japan mostly, for obvious reasons. Korea is doing shit but being neoliberal to the max.

China is having some interesting new writers on the block, like Feng Tang.

>> No.7022517

>>7022487
Koreans literally have no soul.

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>>7022517
You probably meant, no seoul*

>> No.7022947

Russian and Myanmar. Myanmar has had some incredible authors of late. I'm surprised a LITERATURE board would be unaware of such a thriving scene

>> No.7022956

Taiwan :^)

>>7022947
I'm unaware, can you fill us in?

>> No.7022959

>>7022947
>implying that /lit/ knows anything besides English Literature
You must be new here

>> No.7023043

i feel like china is going to produce a lot of good literature in the next century

>> No.7023233

>>7022959
>implying that /lit/ knows anything about literature
You must be new here.

>> No.7023343

>>7022487
Korea has pretty strict censorship (I'm not talking about the north either)
Educated more in the application of hard sciences than the humanities. Philosophy is more or less either Confucism or Buddhism.
And you answered yourself basically with your last statement. Not much in translation slash not much dissemination of those translated.

>> No.7023548

>>7023343
How does that explain Korean film being so good last decade?

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7023565

>>7022941

>> No.7023579

>>7023548
It isn't though

>> No.7024057

>>7023579
What is the Host?
>inb4 stephanie myers shitty book-movie of the same name.

>> No.7024063

>>7023043
Why?

>> No.7024067

>>7022487
Tbh they have a shit consumer culture and have not had enough time to get sick of it yet

>> No.7024070

>>7022941
Kek

>> No.7024567

>>7024057
Korean 'cinema' is shit. Watch more films.

>> No.7024613

I'm learning Chinese with the full knowledge that I probably won't become literate until I'm 50. Western works do get points for being accessible. China is interesting because what we consider fantasy is their defining literature. Aside from the Bible, which somehow gets a pass.