/lit/ - Literature

>>10280555
what's the point?
we already have the lord of the rings
why would we need a chinese ripoff?
this is like the lepin of books

>>10280564
thats a bad headline meant to draw clicks, this is a better article

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1074400.shtml

>>10280555
nice i can't wait to see which character Donald Glover plays in the movie adaptation

I will just finish journey to the west, desu

I thought it already was.

>>10280582
all of them.

>>10280555
Did no one tell them that lord of the rings was already originally written in English?

>>10280582
None because it would hurt sales in the Asian market, unless he plays an Ork or something. Chinese people find blacks very frightening.

>Chinese LotR
Everyone is Gollum

>>10281993
This is a very funny image.

>>10281993
>Chinese people find blacks very frightening.
No, they don't. If you ever meet black Americans who go to China, they say they get stared at because they're such a rarity - but people will approach them for photos, because they're 'exotic'. Different story for Chinese immigrants who have to live with blacks.

>>10280555
>chinese
I'm sure the book will fall apart or crumble to dust after reading a few chapters. The Chinese can't build a safe escalator, so I can't imagine they'd write a good book.

>>10280555
>triumph Individual over corrupt and authoritarian state
>Chinese

it's probably shit. can any /lit/chinks give us a basic gestalt

I rather someone translate teito monogatari

>>10282032
>but people will approach them for photos
kek worst possible move

>>10282399
I bet it's a foreign empire and he has to restore power to the glorious native rulers.

>>10280555

Kung-Fu movies are pretty tight. Is it basically LOTR except with Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon? Sounds fun.

>>10282613
chink here
you should kys

>>10282724
back to r/Asian masculinity

>>10282032
They're an oddity so people do that but they're unabashedly racist about them too.

wuxia is garbage comic book movie-tier shit so I very much doubt it's anywhere near the level of LotR.

>>10282613
It's a wuxia epic. The only similarities to LOTR are that it's long and takes place in a mythical past. And it was published in the 50s, I guess. Only chinaweebs will ever actually make it through the whole tedious story.

The Chinese government is funding the translation and associated publicity because they want to increase China's soft/cultural power and they're too provincial to understand how dumb wuxia is to Westerners. That's OK though, because they can find a few reviewers who will tell everyone how great it is for the right price.

>>10280862
That's the Chinese Pilgrim's Progress

That one Jin Yong poster should be very pleased. Unless OP is that one Jin Yong poster.

>>10283052
Have you read it?

>Condor Heroes getting a translation
my dick couldn't be any more erect

>>10280555
just stop beating around the bush and get this instead, you won't regret it, the 1st read is kind of a wtf is this shit if you are not chinese, but the 2nd read is one of the most enjoyable experiences you will ever have

>>10280555
Naruto is being translated into English?

>>10282613
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NVsyMalJXo

>>10283146
perhaps the best philosopher of the 21st century

>>10283146
>guy at 3:25 finally starts questioning him
Beautiful.

>>10283146
absolute madman

>>10280609
>http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1074400.shtml


no violence, though!

>>10282022

>>10283190
Damn, that cover's quite aesthetic.

>all this negativity ITT
Everybody wins with this
>The ones interested in the book will get an official translation
>Translator gets paid
>Publisher gets paid
>CPC gets some cultural publicity
And those who don’t care about don’t have to do anything.

>>10283220
negativity is because of the shitty "like lord of the rings" publicity, nothing to do with the book itself, also don't be a retard and read this instead >>10283142

>>10283231
After I finished Three Kingdoms and Red Chamber, I will get to it.

>>10280555
The fan translations are indeed fucking bad

>>10281993
>frightening
No, they hate niggers. Nigger populations in China are opressed and harrassed, and the chinks are slowly but surely colonising Africa. They see them as subhumans and thus don't want to see them on the big screen either.