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The article's title is a sly joke, the 'water margin' is the land of outlaws (popular in martial arts novels and films), harking back to Shui Hu Zhuan[1] which
by blacksmith_tb 9y ago
The article's title is a sly joke, the 'water margin' is the land of outlaws (popular in martial arts novels and films), harking back to Shui Hu Zhuan[1] which is fairly well known in English from Pearl S. Buck's translation, _All Men Are Brothers_
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin
- clock_tower 9y agoBuck's translation is garbled, from what I've heard, but there's a thoroughly readable scholarly translation that came out relatively recently. I think it's by the same author who did the two-volume _Romance of the Three Kingdoms_ -- it certainly has the same cover style, and is hard to miss on Amazon.
- zhemao 9y agoThe translation I read was by Sidney Shapiro, which was done in the 1980s.