I don't think it's a fair comparison as you're trying to compare a single civilization, old as it may be, vs. the entirety of Western culture, comprising various individual, distinct cultures spread out over multiple countries and two continents.

>>24825796
What the fuck, anon? Why have you introduced nuance into this stupid bait thread?

>>24825796
>>24825838
There's two fucking billion of them. Answer his question.

>>24825776
>Homer
Nowhere anything analagous to what Homer is in western culture (for most of chinese history only history, philosophy, and poetry were seen as worthwhile writing), but in terms of somewhat similar storyes and literary influence maybe a combination of romance of the three kingdoms and journey to the west.

>>24825776
The one with the monkey story with a staff.
Basically the only thing that ever gets shilled or written about.

>Homer
Qu Yuan. The Chinese Herodotus, by the way, is Sima Qian.
>Shakespeare
Du Fu
>Melville, Joyce, Faulkner
You're tripling up on proto-Modernist and Modernist novelists, as if that's all you know about, but no, there isn't really one. However, the Chinese have at least three Cervantes and one Proust in their four classic novels.
>Rooney
Idk, Yan Geling?