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Photo: 'Water Margin'/Netflix My knowledge of ‘Water Margin’ and quotations thereof belong to Sidney Shapiro’s 1980 translation, ‘Outlaws of the Marsh.’ Europeans think 100 miles is a long-distance, Americans think 100 years is a long time. The Chinese scoff at both. Theirs is one of the most ancient settled societies on Earth, and even the historical texts now known as the Four Great Classical Novels of ancient Chinese literature are relatively new in the context of their society. Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of the more prominent of the four, was written about 700 years old, and the historical events that it depicts occurred more than a millennia before that. I emphasize the history because the Four Great Classical Novels, which also includes Journey to the West, have had enormous, lasting impacts on modern Asian culture, comparable to the impact that Shakespeare has left on the Western sphere. However, almost no...
- 12/18/2020
- by Daniel Choi
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
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