#wuxia thought of the day no.2, re: #JinYong’s Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils.

This was in response to someone sharing this post about plot tropes created/popularised by Jin Yong: https://flamingwell.tumblr.com/post/727218062233927681

An interesting post on characters with disabilities in #JinYong's Condor Trilogy: https://thenoteswhichdonotfit.wordpress.com/2015/05/01/characters-with-disabilities-in-the-condor-trilogy/

The same blogger has a series of posts on sexism and misogyny in Jin Yong's works, which is well worth reading: https://thenoteswhichdonotfit.wordpress.com/tag/rambling-series-about-sexism-in-jin-yong-stories/

#wuxia

An alternate translation of the first half-chapter of #LegendOfTheCondorHeroes, from 1997: https://wuxiawanderings.com/an-early-translation-of-legend-of-the-condor-heroes-that-never-came-to-be/

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. #wuxia #JinYong

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. #wuxia #JinYong

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 #JinYong aka #LouisCha's Legends of Condor Heroes.)

Wo wir vorhin bei Weihnachtsgeschenken waren - auch unsere Redakteurin Almut hat ein paar buchige #Geschenktipps für Euch 😀

#DieLegendeDerAdlerkrieger von #JinYong

#DieAosawaMorde von #RikuOnda

#FairyTale von #StephenKing

https://www.literatopia.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27802:geschenktipps-2022-teil-2&catid=2&Itemid=113

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.

(#JinYong #LouisCha #wuxia)

Oooh, #7Books to know me sounds fun!

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

Ok, I'll bite. Who are 5-7 of your favorite authors? Add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own, etc.

#ConnieWillis
#ElizabethCBunce
#KimNewman
#PhilipKDick
#JinYong
#MaxAllanCollins
#DonaldEWestlake

#bookstodon #amreading #writerscommunity

Hello mysterious people, welcome to my #introduction

Here's a more detailed peek at my special interests-
#movies
#horror
#horrormovies usually more story driven/arthouse
#arthousefilm
#ShawBrothers
#HongKongCinema

#Books especially anything weird or just plain off the mainstream
#HorrorBooks
#JinYong in English (which isn't a lot, sadly)
#YABooks
#ScienceFiction
#LGBTQ

#VideoGames - classic/retro to current

#music of varying style and genre

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