虽然中国学界经常呼吁中国文学走向世界,事实上,在国外,比如在西方,除了汉学界和亚洲系选读中国文学的学生之外,一般文化人对于中国作家和作品知道得很少。在北美大学比较有规模的图书馆,介绍中国20世纪作家的书籍大都只有两三本,论述的内容也都比较单薄,最多是提及两三部重要作品,而且也过时了。集中以新时期以来的作家作品为主的书仍付之阙如。当诺贝尔文学奖的荣誉已经落在中国作家手中,当中国在国际上的地位已经 Although Chinese academics often call for the Chinese literature to go to the world, in fact, the average literary person knows little about Chinese writers and works abroad, such as in the West, in addition to the Sinology and the Asian students who study Chinese literature. At a relatively large scale library in North American universities, there are only two or three books that introduce Chinese writers in the 20th century. The contents of the discussion are relatively infrequent, and at most two or three important works are mentioned, and they are outdated. The books focused on writers’ works since the new period are still missing. When the honor of the Nobel Prize for literature has landed in the hands of Chinese writers, as China has its international status