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<blockquote data-quote="BruceB" data-source="post: 1085555" data-attributes="member: 6736">My advice is to go for the real thing: the <a href="http://www.chinabooks.com/en/publisher/foreignLP.php" target="_blank">Foreign Language Press</a> of Beijing publishes complete translations of several Chinese classic novels, each in three or four beautiful and well-mad little volumes, and you can get a hundred-chapter novel for $30 US or so.Want to read epic political struggle against one of the most brilliant but evil leaders in Chinese history, complete with heroes so good they become demigods in the course of the story? Go for Romance Of The Three Kingdoms. Victims of a corrupt provincial government and uncaring priests, banded together against their enemies and the demons behind it all? Outlaws Of The Marsh. Transcontinental questing by a monk in search of more holy wisdom and his rag-tag bunch including the King of the Monkeys bound in human form? Journey To The West.This stuff used to be hard to find, and sometimes not available in translations anyone but a scholar would want to read. Not anymore! These are big sprawling fun, and to my taste they're denser, richer, weirder, and just plain more satisfying than the vast majority of efforts to be like them by later authors. Go for the gusto.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BruceB, post: 1085555, member: 6736"] My advice is to go for the real thing: the [URL=http://www.chinabooks.com/en/publisher/foreignLP.php]Foreign Language Press[/URL] of Beijing publishes complete translations of several Chinese classic novels, each in three or four beautiful and well-mad little volumes, and you can get a hundred-chapter novel for $30 US or so. Want to read epic political struggle against one of the most brilliant but evil leaders in Chinese history, complete with heroes so good they become demigods in the course of the story? Go for Romance Of The Three Kingdoms. Victims of a corrupt provincial government and uncaring priests, banded together against their enemies and the demons behind it all? Outlaws Of The Marsh. Transcontinental questing by a monk in search of more holy wisdom and his rag-tag bunch including the King of the Monkeys bound in human form? Journey To The West. This stuff used to be hard to find, and sometimes not available in translations anyone but a scholar would want to read. Not anymore! These are big sprawling fun, and to my taste they're denser, richer, weirder, and just plain more satisfying than the vast majority of efforts to be like them by later authors. Go for the gusto. [/QUOTE]

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