Is this a fun read if I want to get into Chinese mythos? On one

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>>9774801
>they also make it sound like 75% of it or more is just fox spirits trying to fuck humans for life essence or some shit
that is kind of hot

>>9774999
This. OP you had my interest, but now you have my attention.

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>>9774999
>>9775030
you depraved fucks

>>9774801
well, this is good if you like inuyasha.
if you like something actually FUN, just read Journey to the West. It's what you want. All sorts of culture in fat dollops. Also, if you want to spend a little money, do some research on Fengshen Yanyi. From my understanding, it's literally a large book full of chinese mythology.

Check out the Four Great Famous Works. Read at least one!

>>9775056
Umm which one has the wolf fuckers, asking for a friend.

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>>9775045
>>9775056
>order journey to the west
>unpack it
>over 500 pages each volume
i-i am not sure if this is going to be fun or not

>>9775071
thats why I went with an abridged version
apparently most of it is poetry and descriptions of previous chapters

>>9775056
>Four Great Famous Works
is this the same as the four great novels. eg water margin, red chamber dreams, etc

>>9775071
just read it. it's going to be fine. once you realize that monkey is OP af, and that Buddha still btfo's him, you'll fall in love. fuck abridged. It's literally a longform episodic anime. Just read it.
>>9775092
Yep.

On the cover of outlaws of the marsh it says that Luo Guanzhong also authored several other books. Anyone spot links for english translations to Tales of Sui and Tang, The Sorceror's Revolt, and Game of Five Dynasties?

>>9775097
any opinions on the four novels and the five classics

>>9775107
>sorcerer's revolt
hng

>>9775148

So you've read it?

>>9775045
>Also, if you want to spend a little money, do some research on Fengshen Yanyi. From my understanding, it's literally a large book full of chinese mythology.
I looked this up and it looks really interesting
why does it appear to be so unpopular? theres only 2 english translations and they're pretty expensive

On the topic of chinesd lit, Ah Q is good. Synopsis is that a loser ends up in pathetic situations, but thinks he's on top because he's a dumbass. It's very short and available in English and Chinese online.

>>9775188
i wish. i can't find an ebook, and i aint payin 5 bucks for digital shit.

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>>9775224

>Synopsis is that a loser ends up in pathetic situations, but thinks he's on top because he's a dumbass.

Sounds like a pretty s-stupid idea for a book.

>>9775241

We will see about that. If I can find a copy of Iamblichus through google, I can find anything.

>>9774801
It's very repetitive, luckily the stories are short. Well written (in the original), some concepts from Taoism and magic thrown in here and there, but a lot of folklore and silliness too.

The Giles translation is good and available online, but somewhat censored; Minford has a go at him for that (cause muh Victorian morals). That said, Minford is a good translator too. Probably the new translation is also available online too, I don't know. Dip in and out.

So much is likely to be lost in translation that it makes you wonder if it's worth reading

ya got guns? got guns too
wutup son do
wanna battle for cash and see who's suntzu?

>>9774801
the chinamen have never produced a work of genuine art in their entire multi thousand year history

>>9776156
>hasn't read work
>hasn't read original either
>doesn't understand the mechanics of translation
>doesn't understand what is "likely to be lost in translation" either
>spoken like a true philistine

>>9776169
there has never been such a unnecessary discharge of excrement than when your mother gave birth to you.

>>9776169
Please think before you type such nonsense.

>>9776521
>>9776725
prove
me
wrong

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>>9776521
>>9776725
>chinks out of the woodwork
LOL

>>9776156
You could say that about your posts.

>>9776521
kek you could have just called him a piece of shit without being so unnecessarily pretentious

>>9774801
It has plenty of spirit fucking.
But it has nice stories too.
I recommend it.

>>9776169
>multi thousand year history
lol never happened, China just like to pretend they're as important and old as Egypt

>>9776158
HUZZAH

chinese lit translates horribly, but I hear it's not actually that hard to learn to read

>>9780181

they were pretty far ahead of egypt. egyptboos overlook the fact that egypt actualy kinda sucks.

>>9780214
Top kek
That said, Classical Chinese is not all that hard. What is hard are all the gay allusions and memetic insider jokes that have perdured for like 2 millennia. That's a lot of shit to get familiar with.

>>9780219
Ok I don't really believe any ancient history. There are actually alot of pyramids in China though.

>>9780214
It's easier than Latin, no joke.

>>9780219
>they were pretty far ahead of egypt
Uh, no. Demonstrably wrong. The Great Pyramid of Giza was built around 2500 B.C. Qin Shi Huang's tombs were built around 200 B.C., two and a half millennia later. (And that's discounting the fact that Qin Shi's tombs were loser piles of dirt compared to Khufu's unparalleled marvel of engineering.)

P.S. What is it with people where anything older than 300 years ago morphs into a uniform blur of 'ancient history'? Have some sense of scale, man!