/lit/ - Literature

>>22279457
>There are a ton on youtube to sift through. The genres ranges from action to girly dramas to detective fiction, all in the same general ancient mythical China.
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>I enjoyed the shows 'Snow Sword Stride' and 'Nirvana in Fire' and 'Demigods and Semi Devils'. But there are a million of them as well as one off movies.
Anon, I've checked them and they all look to be ancient chineese dramas, wuxia at most, but not fantasy, not by a long shot. I'm not against some solid dramas, but I want to watch fantasy.

>>22268990
The Chinese version of a chuuni is a teenager who larps as a Daoist priest because he reads nothing but webnovels all the time, so I think they might be able to tell where you learned Mandarin from just like weebs who talk like little girls.
But I'd say it's better than nothing, there's a lot of guys who use wuxia to learn Chinese

>>22264479
I downloaded a bunch of jin yong and gu long books. They're fun but wuxia seems to like using misunderstandings as a crutch. Semi God Semi Devils is supposed to be Jin Yong's best work and it was recently finished.

>>22264487
And I say ironic because, well the CCP now reviews wuxia, what's that one xianxia webnovel that got banned and everyone calls the best cultivator story ever?

>>22264479
Speaking of Wuxia, it’s amazing how similar Water Margin is to all wuxia that came after it. Almost all of the tropes established in Water Margin have been used, respectively in some form, in every wuxia novel from then on.

/sffg/ discusses them, but it's mostly modern online webnovels. Imagine reading fantasy but only having access to modern Japanese isekai harem light novels. You might have Arthurian legends, just like Journey to the West, but that means there's a centuries wide gap to see how you went from point a to z. There's a lot of classic formative wuxia and xianxia novels that we'll probably never be able to read. Shit like Mortal Kombat and Big Trouble in Little China were both heavily inspired by Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain, which is based on 30s book, never translated. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is also based on an untranslated series from the 40s. Jin Yong is a monumental author who established a lot of tropes yet Legend of Condor Heroes only started getting translated in the last few years.
And /lit/ is not only immensely retarded yet full of itself, it also barely cares about anything outside Europe and the US

>>22264059
>character appears
>proceeds to immediately engage in ludicrous violence like smashing a decapitated head to a pulp in front of them
>attempts to murder protagonists
>not even three paragraphs later becomes sworn brothers over wine
>if female, falls in love and proceeds to sexo

every time. it’s like Water Margin fanfic, complete with the ultranationalism that would get any writer in the Occident denounced.

still luv me wuxia

I think the that Tales of Demons and Gods and Panlong (Coiling Dragon) are really good xianxia for noobs to the genre.

There are classically high rated ones like I Shall Seal The Heavens, A Will Eternal (you can't really properly read this until you are very familiar with the genre as it has a lot of parody/comedy elements), and Battle Through the Heavens.

Martial World is always strong. Rebirth of the Thief Who Roamed the World is a bit of a different genre, but a good one in it.

My friend really likes Warlock of the Magus World.
Anyways, always glad to have some for wuxia/xianxia fans!

>>22224575
Water Margin is an example of Wuxia rather than Xianxia. It doesn't reach the same retarded marysue self-insert peaks the latter genre is known and beloved for

>>22218557
>Dostojevski
Fellow slav, you are on a path to reading wuxia and xianxia, God help you.

I was actually reading some Chinese novels this year, now /wg/ is tempting me to write a wuxia litrpg. I will try to stay the course and write what I already planned to.

>>22181868
That’s what you get for reading modern leftist Chink-slop. This is no different to those gay “wuxia/cultivation” novels.

Read wuxia or Chinese fantasy. It retains a lot of cool fantasy elements but is a breath of fresh air if you’re sick of traditional western fantasy

>>22139513
What don't you like about it? Let's do something like a literary analysis in this discussion thread instead of just posting an image and telling people to off themselves. Chinese Wuxia is piss swill and the translation efforts are abysmal but the same can be said of Lord of the Mysteries, yet that's treated with a general respect here.

>>22134864
Murim, Wuxia, and Xianxia novels I guess. Most of them are low quality and translated badly though.

>>22102073
I've added ~4,300 words to my game-lit.
Since you're apparently writing anime/isekai/xanxia/wuxia/whatever, you can't put my genre down.
>>22102167
It's far more likely that anime-anon hasn't written anything, and is just trying to be a demotivational failed-crab.

>>22085061
"MMO shit" is 99% of the time Korean. Chinese wuxia/xianxia has progression elements, but only very rarely a system with stats, levels, etc.
The reason is that, despite the fact that games are hugely popular in both countries, China has a rich culture and history that informs its literature, whereas Korea only has gaming.

>>22077049
ill check it out, at the very least it'll sit on my plan to read list. always open to more chinese xianxia/wuxia

>>22075825
ok but naming your aliens and wuxia characters after dudes in the bible is not great for immersion

dragon heart (wuxia/litrpg, audio book), while fishing and hunting in rdr2

and no one can stop me

>>22037226
must have learned from a lot of wuxia/daoist?? shit

>>22036173
nta but he was somewhat correct, it is not the writing exactly but communism. Communism kills creative freedom, those that were intellectual were oppressed or killed, those that were stupid unthinking robots were promoted instead, cummunism is censorship itself, it's why all chinese works are so similar, because they just copy their old wuxia classics because they are unable to come up with good new ideas due to decades of indoctrination and goverment oppression which applies on individual level but also cultural level that affects the entire society.

>>22027067

Entirely correct, and a great correction that adds to my point. Tolkien was fascinated with how to localize the ancient/foreign to the modern, which is why if he never wrote about hobbits or rings then his major contribution would probably have been setting Beowulf to prose.

I'll throw a guilty pleasure of mine into the fire to make a distinction: Brent Week's Night Angel trilogy. A fun, if edgy work, it uses naming well in at least one case but then bungles others. The goddess Khali is of course worshipped by the Khalador empire, a great use of association. But why is there an institution called the Sa'kagé in a land called Midcyru, in cities like Cenaria? To what groupings do Dorian, Elene, Hu, Kylar, Durzo, Drake, and Logan belong? We need not have names from Wuxia like Rightful Country Ruler, but the reader needs some consistency and some exposure or knowledge of whatever linguistics are being borrowed from to expect to have an easy time with the fantasy naming systems.

>>22010612
Are you counting Xianxia, Xuanhuan, and Wuxia works like Coiling Dragon, Desolate Era, Renegade Immortal, I Shall Seal the Heavens, Cradle etc.?