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New editions of Jin Yong's wuxia novels coming out later this month (10.28.2022) in Taiwan. Here's the covers of LOCH, ROCH, and HSDS. These are reprints of the 2nd edition, the one most fans grew up on, the first time Jin Yong revised his work.
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#wuxia #武俠 #JinYong #金庸
Some other covers (not sure of the release date of these). A Deadly Secret, Deer and the Cauldron (aka Duke of Mount Deer), and The Young Flying Fox (the one the recent drama is adapted from).
There's also a Jin Yong day calendar coming out the same day.
"Dugu Nine Swords - Sun Moon Holy Cult Pt. 3" by Ripped to Shreds.
Yeah, it's Jin Yong death metal.
open.spotify.com/track/3MJPATw9…
#wuxia #武俠 #JinYong #金庸 #RippedtoShreds
Yeah, it's Jin Yong death metal.
open.spotify.com/track/3MJPATw9…
#wuxia #武俠 #JinYong #金庸 #RippedtoShreds
Bandcamp link to album: rippedtoshredsdeathmetal.bandcamp.com/album/jubian
And lyrics to the song (from The Metal Archives):
And lyrics to the song (from The Metal Archives):
And another Jin Yong/wuxia song from the same album:
"Scripture Containing the Supreme Internal Energy Arts That Render the Practitioner Invincible Throughout the Martial Realm"
open.spotify.com/track/1VVaNUaY…
"Scripture Containing the Supreme Internal Energy Arts That Render the Practitioner Invincible Throughout the Martial Realm"
open.spotify.com/track/1VVaNUaY…
Putting together a post comparing the original opening of Legend of the Condor Heroes with the revised version, and have noticed even more mistranslations and cut passages in the official translation. =\
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#wuxia #武俠 #JinYong #金庸
江畔一排數十株烏柏樹，葉子似火燒般紅
"Ten cypresses stand proudly along its banks, their leaves red like fire."
A cypress with fire-red leaves?!?! No. It's a Chinese tallow tree (Triadica sebifera). Also should be "tens" or "dozens", not exactly "ten". Simple errors like this.
"Ten cypresses stand proudly along its banks, their leaves red like fire."
A cypress with fire-red leaves?!?! No. It's a Chinese tallow tree (Triadica sebifera). Also should be "tens" or "dozens", not exactly "ten". Simple errors like this.
一件青布長袍早洗得褪成了藍灰
"in robes once black, now faded a blue-grey"
Black robe became blue-grey? it's bcuz 青 is blue, not black. It's right there in your own translation! Even in 青絲 referring to black hair, it's the blue glint or tint of light off of black hair.
"in robes once black, now faded a blue-grey"
Black robe became blue-grey? it's bcuz 青 is blue, not black. It's right there in your own translation! Even in 青絲 referring to black hair, it's the blue glint or tint of light off of black hair.
More questionable translating from A Hero Born, vol.1 of LOCH. (pg. 199) "Chimpanzee"??? You know cause of all those chimps in CHINA. lol. (Chimps are native to Africa).
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#wuxia #武俠 #JinYong #金庸
This is a martial arts move from the YUE MAIDEN swordplay, which should have been a tip off to what this meant. 白猿 refers to a famous Tang dynasty story. 猿 is often translated generally as "ape", but strictly speaking it's a gibbon.
Also seeing an unprofessional number of typos as I flip through this. I believe I have a first printing, so I dunno if they were corrected later but, whew.....
The following is 4 pages of the first Jin Yong translation in Eng: Flying Fox of Snow Mountain by Robin Wu, printed in Bridge bimonthly in 1972 in 4 parts. These are excerpts from the color plates at the beginning of Chinese editions of Flying Fox.
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#wuxia #JinYong #金庸 #武俠
The first page is obvious. After that the order is bald guy, two people with halos and horses, then woman's face.
Oh yeah, this is a translation of the 1st serialized edition, before Jin Yong had done any revisions.
Checked out some Jin Yong books from the library. Biographies, an essay collection written by Jin Yong, and some books about his work from wuxia author Wen Rui'an.
#wuxia #武俠 #JinYong #金庸
#wuxia #武俠 #JinYong #金庸
There's a book on the top by Shen Xicheng, former editor of Wuxia World Magazine. In it he talks about the Eng translations. Criticizes the titles of Book and Sword and Deer and the Cauldron, says once he read them he was "extremely extremely disappointed." So it's not just me!
Also mentions the new LOCH A Hero Born which was just set to come out at the time. Likes the title better ("though it's not a condor") and hopes it will be a success.
The 602nd installment of Smiling, Proud Wanderer. 1092 characters. So again, only ~1/3 of a modern webnovel chapter.
#wuxia #jinyong #webnovel #武俠 #金庸
#wuxia #jinyong #webnovel #武俠 #金庸
The 1st installment of The Deer and the Cauldron, Oct. 24, 1969. 813 Chinese characters.
1st installment of Legend of the Condor Heroes, Jan. 1, 1957. 902 characters.
