On the note of globalization in literature, I've also noticed some cases where Chinese novels with strong opening sentence

posted by Brendan

But Mo Yan has some good openings too. Like this one, from Tanxiang xing: 那天早晨,俺公爹赵甲做梦也想不到再过七天他就要死在俺的手里;死得胜过一条忠于职守的老狗。

posted by Anna GC

"白嘉轩后来以为豪壮的是一生里娶过七房女人。 "

I was smitten by this opening to 《白鹿原》. Or maybe it's just the measure word for women -- 房

posted by Bruce Humes

I agree with what Howard, and the other comments, are saying. You have all made the point that literary tastes/styles diff

posted by Nicky Harman

Most Chinese are in fact the copyists who are making loyal codicils to the Bible of the so-called brilliant enterprise, wh

posted by Hong

Well, Most Chinese writers ... not most Chinese, hahaha, as far as I know, many Chinese people can make more enticing and

posted by Hong