Discursive Construction of Chinese Literary Classics Based on Big Data Analysis in Global Communication

Abstract

Recent studies illustrates that big data analysis now plays a growing importance on business, politics, technology, academic researches, discursive construction of a nation, etc. Big data analysis was applied in broad fields, including translating Chinese literary classics. By using a qualitative method, this article focuses on current studies on big data analysis and Chinese literary classics, impact of big data on discursive construction of Chinese literary classics, and strategies for discursive construction of Chinese literary classics in global communication, so as to better translating Chinese literary classics, transmitting Chinese voices, and constructing discursive power of Chinese literature in the western world. The research finds that big data analysis is a significant method to construct discursive power of Chinese literary classics and there’s still a long way to go before it is finally constructed.