Pretty much any international comparison table (with any reality in it) has Singapore and Hong Kong at the top:http://www.unz.com/isteve/2015-pisa-mean-scores-in-perspective/ …
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Replying to @arthpeeters
You do know that all of the catalytic technologies of modernity (printing press, magnetic compass, gunpowder) came from China?
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Replying to @Outsideness @arthpeeters
... Also, China now has a space program (though sub Space-X). Classical music, definite Western edge. Appreciated more out East
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... Literature and philosophy harder to rate. Visual arts in China clearly superior to the Western tradition, and far more PoMo proof.
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Replying to @Saradin1337
If it's going to be cross-cultural, it has to be a crude category like "painting" (broadly conceived to include ink works).
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Replying to @Outsideness
if we're going with painting, not sure how they compete with Ren art.
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Replying to @Saradin1337 @Outsideness
Also, I'd say we have an edge in literature. Tendency of Asians to lag whites in verbal SAT is indicative, imo
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Replying to @Saradin1337
Poetry? It depends a lot on how much minimalism is judged to be a core aesthetic value.
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Replying to @Outsideness
I don't know enough about E Asian poetry to judge, tbh. But I think you're right to pose it as minimalism vs descriptiveness
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Or, from the other side, your reference to the epic. There's no Chinese Milton.
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Replying to @Outsideness
closest is probably, what, Romance of the Three Kingdoms?
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Replying to @Saradin1337
But that's prose. A smallish core of excellence, but nothing like the rampaging super-abundance of the Western novel.
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