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Not true. Chinese were printing 1000+ page novels when Euros still thought putting up few rhymes is height of literature.
Yeah, considering that chinese novels were basically unknown in the west till really XX century and west developed that genre independently, it would be fair.
I don't think that's fair either since the Satyricon and Apuleius' Golden Ass are also much older. There were also a bunch of novels written in the medieval period that eventually evolved into the modern through things like Gargantua and Don Quixote, which is what I think ends up confusing people.