"From poverty to prosperity, from backwardness to progress — this is a path shared by all humanity," Wang says.

Zhang Hongbin, director of the International Department of the China Writers Association, emphasizes that literature's global reach stems from the continual discoveries of local stories. It's a process that depends on collaborative reinterpretation.

"Translation is more than repackaging," he says. "It is a re-creation and a joint effort in meaning-making."