Library haul! Top left is a book about xia (left) and on the (right) is that history book I tweeted about the other day. the earlier version (though published in 2020, dunno why there is another version out this March; contents are the same) (continued...)
#wuxia #武俠 #books
#wuxia #武俠 #books
top right pic is Introduction to Wuxia Fiction by Lin Baochun (2019). The guy who wrote the paper I translated about wuxia tropes. Bottom left is Roaming the Jianghu (vol.1&2/4) by Zhao Chenguang. Am translating article about her now. (continued...)
bottom left is Overwhelming Sword (left, 2008) by Zhao Chenguang. She won a major awar for this one. And Sad Jianghu (2011, not sure about the sad part; that word can be translated various ways) by Sun Xuetong, another female mainland China #wuxia writer.
this is a new public library here and it has this cool self-checkout scanner where you can put your whole stack of books on it at once and it scans them all in that way. so quick and convenient.
The Introduction to Wuxia book has some cool pictures in it, including some author pics I've never seen before. (will be scanning those). Some of the content looks cobbled from other writings of his, some looks new (new for me anyway)
Am looking forward to reading the other history book, esp. the 90s-2000s era. very little has been written about that period. Includes a section on Snow Sword Stride (very popular webnovel in China, so popular it's been on the 24hr bestseller charts on Zongheng for years now)
Hopefully one of the webnovel translators will translate it some day, but it has some very long chapters. maybe that has turned prospective translators off? dunno.
"hopefully" cause I want to read it too but I can'tbe bothered to read such a friggin long webnovel; too many other books on my shelves to read. and i can read english much faster, so i want a translation too. paperbacks of it are coming out in Taiwan though, since last month.
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