Random question of the day is: what's your favorite adaption of Water Margin / 水浒传 ? Preferably as a movie or short-ish TV show? (animation also welcome)
I'd like to know more about it before reading the queer retelling "The Water Outlaws" by S. L. Huang but I'm not sure where to start...
This master's thesis about fantasy genres in Chinese internet literature might be of interest here: https://is.muni.cz/th/s33qt/Fantasy_Genres_of_Chinese_Internet_Literature_-_Master_s_Thesis_Maskova.pdf
New Stories from a Burning House post! Skip the part about Liu Zongyuan if you like, but do read the translation of Zhang Dai's "Snow at the Heart of the Lake" 湖心亭看雪.
Greatly enjoying this wonderful interview with the poet and translator Susan Wan Dolling, on the Chinese Literature Podcast: https://chineseliteraturepodcast.libsyn.com/interview-with-susan-wan-dolling-translator-of-chinese-poetry
Here’s Wan Dolling’s website: https://sites.google.com/view/susanwandolling/home
I certainly hope to buy her recent collections of Tang and Song poetry!
#SusanWanDolling #ChinesePoetry #ChineseLiterature #TangPoetry #SongPoetry #translation #podcast #ChineseLiteraturePodcast
Today, Lee gets to chat with , Hong-Kong-American poet, novelist and translator. She recently published her latest book of Song poetry translations, , but she has long been working on translating Chinese poetry into an English that does what is hard to do, that preserves the music that you hear in the Chinese original. If you want to check out more of her translations, check out (volume 1 of her Song poetry translations), (volume 1 of her My China in Tang Poetry series), (volume 2 of her My China in Tang Poetry series) and (volume 3 of her My China in Tang Poetry series). Also, my book, China's Backstory: The History Beijing Doesn't Want You to Read is out! You can purchase a copy of it here from my publisher: Or you can purchase it on Amazon . If you are interested, check out the nice things smart people have said about the book .
चार उस्ताद – ज्ञान-विज्ञान (Four Masters In Hindi)
A little book describing four insects and how they destroy other harmful insects.
चार कीड़ों का वर्णन करने वाली एक छोटी सी किताब और वे अन्य हानिकारक कीड़ों को कैसे नष्ट करते हैं ।
शब्दांकन : लिन सुङइङ
चित्रांकन : छो रुइछङ च्वाङलिङ
You can get the book here and here.
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https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202511/1347167.shtml
Now I want to read "The Vegetarian" and some of the other works that Dong Xi mentions, especially Zhuangzi -- On Seeing Things as Equal.
#Literature #Books #KoreanLiterature #HanKang #TheVegetarian #ChineseLiterature #OnSeeingThingsAsEqual #DongXi #Transformations
चीनी बच्चों को विचित्र कल्पनाएँ (Weird Imagination Of Chinese Children in Hindi)
A collection of imaginary and fantastic inventions of Chinese children.
चीनी बच्चों के काल्पनिक और शानदार आविष्कारों का संग्रह ।
लेखक : छङ च्या आदि
चित्रकार : याङ वनमिन
You can get the book here and here.
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🐉 Why "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils"?
Jin Yong's preface explains: 天龙八部 = "Eight Legions of Deva and Nāga" from Buddhist scriptures.
Eight supernatural races (devas, nāgas, yakshas, asuras, garudas, etc.) who symbolise his mortal characters—all struggling with desire and suffering.
Buddhist mythology meets wuxia storytelling.
Read the full translation:
https://wuxiasociety.com/demi-gods-and-semi-devils-title-explanation
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