Classic Chinese Literature

>>9164231
I have both Monkey and the 3 volume green chinese classics version, which has very thin pages, and feels a bit like a manga. I've read about 1/3 of Monkey, and loved it, but wanted to go ahead and read the whole thing. I also grabbed Outlaws of the Marsh, but just went ahead with an abridgement with that. I have a cool site that shows all the 108 stars from the story, really cool shit:
http://www.kuniyoshiproject.com/The%20108%20Heroes%20of%20the%20Popular%20Suikoden,%20Part%20I.htm

also, you might look into "tales from a chinese studio". but all in all, the ultra-meme, epic master tier book of ancient china, is apparently "The Investiture of the Gods". the only translations I can find are one that's just an inferior work, and is damned by the very few reviews I could find, then, an extremely expensive edition, that seems to be a somewhat better translation, though no reviews to confirm this are available. Oh and another thing, there was a guy who wrote a sort of fantasy novel series, starting with the book "bridge of birds" by barry hughart. I haven't gotten around to any of this stuff, since I end up researching more than I actually read, but this should be at least a good head start to some of the stuff available.

eh i guess i shouldn't have bothered lol

>>9164248
>I end up researching more than I actually read

I fall into the same rut. I guess I should stop fretting and just read one. I'm just gonna go to the library and see what versions they got.

About that The Investiture of the Gods book you mentioned, the only copies I can find are by Katherine Chew. Is that the shitty version you mentioned? I probably won't get around to reading it until after JTTW, that's at the top of my list right now

>>9164349
https://www.amazon.com/Creation-Gods-Library-Chinese-Classics/dp/7800054861
like that, i mean. shit's expensive for a proper version. but yeah, just grab a copy and enjoy, it's a bit quaint and repetitive. You're just lucky you didn't go out and grab a copy of Morgante, or The Anatomy of Melancholy on a whim, and now are stuck with books you're too much of a pleb to ever read.

>>9164248
>chinese classics version
They have the best versions but yeah, the physical quality is pretty shitty. Chink tale publishing is so bad.

>>9164248
>epic master tier book of ancient china
It's Ming dynasty, not ancient.

>>9164556
hmph. well whatever, i was juss tryntahelp

bumping this

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the television show "Monkey" is better.

"It is a far, far better thing that I do now.. than YOU ever did."

>>9164231
dragonball is better than dragonball z, everyone knows this

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>>9166782
The cartoon is also really great. And if you want to practice Mandarin it's not that difficult in it (maybe for the opening) and will probably verse you on a ton of common idiom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g76NI4FUyRg

And the 2010 Three Kingoms is probably the greatest adaptation for RoTK. There are plenty of adaptations for Dream of the Red Mansions/Chamber, but I would direct you to 1987 one but more so to the book more than any of the others I've mentioned. And I do recall watching a show for Water Margin in my youth but it didn't leave an impression on me