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Chinese literature — Do Nobels oblige?
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Chinese literature — Do Nobels oblige?

In 1917, Chen Duxiu, a Chinese revolutionary, asked: “Pray, where is our Chinese Hugo, Zola, Goethe, Hauptmann, Dickens or Wilde?”
China has long fretted that it lacked a great modern literary voice with international appeal. In …