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Can you please recommend an introductory Jin Yong book or two? I'm a Western Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest fan and this sounds right up my alley. (Thanks SBS
by hnzix 8y ago
Can you please recommend an introductory Jin Yong book or two? I'm a Western Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest fan and this sounds right up my alley. (Thanks SBS Cult Movie nights). I've read and enjoyed The Water Margin fwiw.
- victoriasun 8y agoI left another comment here [1] with some of my introductory JY thoughts and recs! But to be honest I've never read an English translation of his work, so I have no idea what the quality of it is like. He writes in extremely poetic language that is rooted deeply in the Chinese grammatical structure that I imagine will be difficult to translate. That being said since you do have some experience with reading asian literature I would definitely recommend The Legend of the Condor Heroes as a great intro-JY book. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18352268 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18352268
- hnzix 8y agoAi not available for purchase in my country. Thanks anyway, I've found heaps of contemporary translated novels from Japan but for some reason the only Chinese stuff I find is very expatty (apart from the classics).
- blacksmith_tb 8y agoI liked these translations[1], I see there have been a couple of recent others, but I haven't read them yet. 1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/552708.The_Book_and_the_Sword https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/552708.The_Book_and_the_...