>mogs the Western Canon

nothing personal, shakespeare

>>21975911 (OP)

Ching chong huang zhuang

I read it and it’s enjoyable but it’s not really comparable and you can definitely tell the rhythms of suspense building at the end of chapters, stuff like “find out on the next chapter!” Are pretty charming but I think preferring it to the hoards of Chinese verse or the many great English long poems is just kinda silly. It’s kino don’t get me wrong, but it’s not a work of monstrous quality that can be said along the likes of “divine comedy “ for example.

Lemme guess, it was written in gorillion BC.

What does Mao think of these books?

1792

Nah 18th century and it being passed between authors due to dudes dying before it was complete and having additional chapters added as a fun past time betweens friends is like, it’s explicitly what’s going on in the book. In china they for most of their history didn’t respect the novel or long form prose, with the exception being philosophical works and essays. The reason being that long form prose was seen as childish and unskilled compared to verse/poetry which adults would play with often and bureaucrats were expected to have some level of adepthood with. Leaving the only benefit of prose being the fantasy it can generate but even then poetry was able to do that also. 



By and large that kind of interest in human characters was uncommon in China since it’s neither as so piercing as just writing an essay on what amounts to psychology, and not so quickly beautiful as a series of poems. China was always more interested in poetry anthologies t b h.

I've heard that this is the best one of the 4

I've read about 100 pages of Water Margin but otherwise I haven't really bothered

Since I am half Chinese maybe I should buy all 4 and read them

What is the best translations for each?

>I am half Chinese

You will never truly identify with any culture.

I identify with the culture of Imperial Russia

RIP poor Alexei

Cope harder, mutt.

It's tough you know, being born in the wrong place and time

You should have some empathy please

Hapas are so ugly. They belong nowhere.

>>21975911 (OP)

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>>21975911 (OP)



Are these editions any good? I have this version of The Water Margin lined up to read this month but I'm clueless when it comes to translations of Chinese books

don't mind the sourpuss

samefag

For the other three, yes, but that one's translated by a Jew. Get the Pearl S Buck translation

niggerfag

seethe

Journey to the West: Anthony C. Yu, published as The Journey to the West

Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Yu Sumei, published as The Three Kingdoms

Dream of the Red Chamber: David Hawkes, published as The Story of the Stone

Water Margin: John and Alex Dent-Young, published as The Marshes of Mount Liang

These are all literally the worst translations.

my condolences

>>21975911 (OP)

Meh.

Pretty good for Orientals, of course, but hardly up to Western Canon standards...

Who but Yu?

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