关键词: 中国故事, 世界文学, 文化符号, 语义场

Abstract: This paper explores the pathways and mechanisms through which Chinese stories enter the realm of world literature from the perspective of cultural semiotics. By employing mathematical modelling approaches and analyzing typical cases, the paper first examines the creative process of cultural signs within Chinese stories and the generative mechanisms underlying their connotations, thereby revealing their role in constructing the cultural identity of the Chinese people. Subsequently, it investigates the recursive interpretation phenomenon of cultural signs during the translation process, portraying the role and function of translators in sign conversion across different cultural domains. Building on this foundation, the paper further discusses the flow of cultural signs from Chinese stories within the global literary system, as well as the semantic shifts and derivative phenomena that these signs experience in the context of world literature. To this end, the paper constructs a triple function expression to represent Chinese stories as cultural signs, providing a novel analytical model for understanding the global appeal of Chinese stories. The paper concludes that the world literary attributes embodied in Chinese stories exhibit a positive correlation with the interpretation of their cultural signs within the semantic field of world literature, and that effective interpretation and dissemination of cultural signs are crucial for the integration of Chinese stories into the realm of world literature.

Key words: Chinese stories, world literature, cultural signs, semantic field