On Comparative Arts of the East and West

The emergence of any culture is both national and worldwide and the culture should be shared by the people all over the world. The development of each national culture is based on the basis of opening and compatibility. The laws of the development of the eastern and western literatures and arts all have this kind of distinct characteristics. Mutual assimilation and use is the path to develop the national culture and arts and the closeness and refusal to international intercourse can only lead to extinguishing. However, mutual assimilation and use does not mean mere transplanting and losing of oneself but must follow the laws of the development of the national culture and arts and be adapted to her own national cultural aesthetic conception.