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undefinedblog | 7 years ago

As a native Chinese speaker, I don't quite identify the genre of his work as "martial arts", it just should be "Wu Xia", which can not be translated flawlessly into English, like "Zen" or "Tao".

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xarope|7 years ago

I consider wu xia as fantasy with martial arts, as much as western stories have any resemblance to what really happened in the "wild" west. I think Jin Yong's draw, as with most fiction writers, is placing the fantasy within a context of current social issues, thus allowing readers strong identification.

girzel|7 years ago

Try translating 江湖! That's what really stumps us.

xarope|7 years ago

It's like a programming community, but with martial arts exponents. And instead of hackfests, they beat each other up.

Do I win a prize? :-P