villainous friend · @villainousfriend
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thought of the day no.2, re: ’s Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils.

This was in response to someone sharing this post about plot tropes created/popularised by Jin Yong: flamingwell.tumblr.com/post/72

#wuxia #jinyong

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villainous friend · @villainousfriend
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An interesting post on characters with disabilities in 's Condor Trilogy: thenoteswhichdonotfit.wordpres

The same blogger has a series of posts on sexism and misogyny in Jin Yong's works, which is well worth reading: thenoteswhichdonotfit.wordpres

#jinyong #wuxia

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villainous friend · @villainousfriend
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An alternate translation of the first half-chapter of , from 1997: wuxiawanderings.com/an-early-t

This was supposed to have been the official English translation, by John Minford and Sharon Lai, but for some reason the project never came to fruition.

#legendofthecondorheroes #wuxia #jinyong

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I’m still kind of sad that Murong Fu didn’t turn out to be a better person, you know? Better as in more humane, less arrogant, less fucking twisty and more open to others, or more loyal to his underlings—any one of those would have sufficed. I had high hopes for him but he was so single-minded about his goal, and yet so inconsistent in his approach to it, that he failed in everything.

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22 · @22
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Anna Holmwood translated the name of Guo Jing's teachers as "The Seven Freaks of the South".

NLP tools like MeCab often have a thing where you can ask for the top-2 or top-N best parsings, not just one, and times like these I wish I could ask the translator, "what were your #2 and #3 picks for that name"?

Cuz. Should I parse this as, "seven weirdos of the south"?

Or, "seven wonders of the south"?

(In aka 's Legends of Condor Heroes.)

#jinyong #louischa

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Literatopia · @Literatopia
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22 · @22
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Because I was raised in languages that had separate words for maternal vs paternal grandparents and aunts and uncles, it turned out that I didn’t know one of my grandmothers’ names till I went to write my wedding invitation in my twenties. I only knew the other grandmother’s name because my dad had mentioned it once to illustrate a point of grammar it contained.

That reminded me of this tidbit in Louis Cha’s Legends of Condor Heroes wuxia novel translated brilliantly by Anna Holmwood:

‘But why had she not told Guo Jing [her son] Skyfury’s name? Lily Li was an illiterate country girl and she had only ever referred to her husband by the traditional “Brother” as a sign of respect. She had never thought to ask his given name.’

The ways cultures handle names and titles are so rich and variable. I love encountering new ways people do this.

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#jinyong #louischa #wuxia

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Mina Li (she/her) · @CodenameMinaLi
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Oooh, to know me sounds fun!

1. The Mermaid's Three Wisdoms, by
2. Cloud Atlas, by
3. Siren Queen, by
4. Disorientation, by
5. An Arrow to the Moon, by @exrpan
6. Legend of the Condor Heroes by
7. Solutions and Other Problems by

#7books #janeyolen #davidmitchell #NghiVo #elainehsiehchou #jinyong #alliebrosh

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Hayley Winter · @Driftglass
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Hello mysterious people, welcome to my

Here's a more detailed peek at my special interests-


usually more story driven/arthouse


especially anything weird or just plain off the mainstream

in English (which isn't a lot, sadly)


- classic/retro to current

of varying style and genre

👋😅

#music #videogames #LGBTQ #sciencefiction #yabooks #jinyong #HorrorBooks #books #hongkongcinema #shawbrothers #arthousefilm #horrormovies #horror #movies #introduction

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