ULTIMATE PATRICIAN TEST What is your favorite of the four classics?

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Donatello

>>9278623
Mencius, obviously

Romance

Infinite Jest

>>9278623
john lennon

>>9278623
>tfw I don't know Chinese and never will

>>9278623
>tfw chinese but wasted the opportunity to learn chinese as a kid and now fucked over by burger language that learning chinese will probably take me 100 years

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>>9278754
Your taste is shit.
Michelangelo is where it is.

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>>9278791
go back to asia zipperhead we don't want you here.

>>9278623
>four classics
It says five right there on your image you incorrigible 小人.

>>9278893
/pol/ shitposting isnt even funny anymore friend

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>>9278754
>>9278806
>tfw surrounded by plebs

>>9279002
it never was

>>9278623
>
defiantly romance of the three kingdoms

Journey to the west

>>9278623
I've only read Monkey(abridged journey to the west). It was ok, basically the Asian version of the Hobbit.

gotta be jin shengtan's water margin

>>9279160
faggot

>>9279011
Those are disgusting

>>9278623
The fault in our starts by JOHN GREEN

>>9280295
not him but women like them i think

Could anyone recommend me some good translations of "Outlaws of the Marsh" and "Romance Of The Three Kingdoms"? The more unabridged, the better.

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>>9279002
>implying I was kidding
Do not misinterpret slant eye

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>>9281820
Asians are the white man's friend.

>>9281752
the ones that come in boxsets

>>9281752
Moss Roberts for RotTK
Sidney Shapiro for Outlaws of the Marsh

I like Journey to the West the most.

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Jin Yong.

>>9282206
Thanks, been searching lately so this helps a lot.

>>9280295
DELETE THIS THEY ARE DELICIOUS

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>>9278806
Say wut bish?

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>>9278623
I-I don't know, anon....

Today I learned, I AM LE PLEB!

I've only ever read Three Kingdoms, so I'm biased. a friend gave me his copy of Journey to the West, and I've yet to get to it.

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>>9278623
>no proper spanish translation of RotTK yet

>>9278623
>>9278899
>reading anything other than Zhuangzi
孔子 is for plebes, my man.

>>9285227
>bashing 孔子 and praise 莊子
Excellent taste

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>>9285243
>mfw every time I carve a chicken I pretend I am Ting the Butcher.

>>9285227
Dude didn't even know if he was a butterfly tho

>>9285186
as a note avoid ciruela translation of journey

>>9278623

is the pearl buck translation of water margin really that bad? i love her writing style but it seems to be pretty universally disliked. can anyone recommend a translation?

>>9286551
>>9285186
Are there proper Spanish translations of anything from the East? No joke, I see a severe lack of East Asian lit (classical or contemporary) translated to Spanish.

Story of the Stone > Journey to the West > Romance of the Three Kingdoms > Water Margin

Dream of the Red Chamber

Gundam Wing

>>9281820
east asians are honorary whites

>>9288730
not really as far as i cant tell, even the tao te ching translations are awful

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>>9278623

>tfw only read 20th century Chinese novels because I don't have the time to read four multi-volume 4000 page novels
>tfw I read them in translation because I'm too dumb to learn Chinese

>>9278761

Thank you anon, best answer

/lit/終日,言不及義,好行小慧,難已哉。
以是故,君子慎獨。

>>9278623
>Hardback three volume deluxe edition of Confucian classics, leather bound with gold lettering on the spine

>in simplified characters

So close, and yet so far.

>>9278776
I get it.
Though John Lennon was a fucking abhorrent, apathetic cretin to is son, publicly stating that he was the result of cheap whisky and a night they couldn't afford the morning after pill.
Leaving him nothing in the will was a rather low blow as well I imagine...

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>>9278623
>currently reading this
the paperback is shit, but the story is fun