[HIGHLIGHTS] East-West Question丨Tan Jia: What are the similarities and differences between dragons in Eastern and Western literary works?

Exclusive interview with Tan Jia, director of the Comparative Literature Research Office of the Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Dragon in Chinese literature highly embodies the spirit of Chinese literature and art and the spiritual world of literati.

Dragon literature has its own tension and characteristics, making it unique among dragon cultures. As the only fictional animal among the twelve zodiac animals, it is regarded as the totem of the ancestors of the Chinese nation. The representative dragons in Chinese and foreign literary works are sorted out and interpreted.