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- Joined Sep 19, 2017
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The Outlaws of the Marsh (OM): http://uploads.worldlibrary.net/uploads/pdf/20130423230739the_outlaws_of_the_marsh_pdf.pdf
Journey to the West (JtW):
https://chine.in/fichiers/jourwest.pdfI wasn't able to find the pdf for Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Dream of the Red Chamber, but fortunately these books are actually adopted into TV series. Also, JtW and OM are adopted into TV series as well.
If you are interested in these stories, I think it might actually be better if you can just watch their TV series. (With English Sub, but low resolution.)
RoTK (1994): watch?v=wyS1CuUiPno
JtW (1986): watch?v=3b3kSLuPZy8
DoRC (1987): watch?v=thABozjBrbg
OM: not found yetAmong the four, JtW and RoTK are intensively adopted by Web Novels.
In short, RoTK is based on the history of the period of Three Kingdoms. It is kindda similar to "A Song of Ice and Fire". JtW is as popular as Andersen's fairy tales, and it is well known by kids. It is kindda like "The Lord of Rings", but it's G rather than PG/PG-13.
CKtalon Okay, I think I will just write an article on this. Actually I'm not entirely happy with Qidian's tag system lol
Some of these tags are not qualified as a style, but rather just saying the book is a fan fiction to an original piece, so it could be confusing. For instance, 蜀山 (indicating the book is a fan fiction to "The Gods and Demons of Zu Mountain"), 西游 (fan fiction to "Journey to the West"), 洪荒流 (fan fiction to Taoism's mythology concerning the creation), etc.
Looking at their logo... it seems the blue is designed for Web Novel, whereas the red is designed for Chinese QI?
I bet it'd be fine, considering a book is not gonna be translated in the first place if it annoys its readers
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So as you might know, there are various "styles" in Chinese WebNovels. I call them "styles" for the lack of a better word.
Styles are not equivalent to genres. A style is more like a stylized element or structure that is used in fictions to move the plot forward. A style can be adopted in fictions of virtually any genre.
(For genre, you can read Robyn's article "Chinese Web Novel Genres" : http://robynpaterson.com/?p=3847)For example, "untalented" is considered as a style. This is the element that made the protagonist to struggle hard in the hope to achieve what was originally considered impossible to him as he just don't have the talent. The Xianxia Novel "Immortal Mortal" is considered as a fiction of the "untalented / mortal" style, the protagonist didn't have "spiritual roots" (the talent of cultivating) yet strive to cultivate.
Do you guys know if there is an introduction to Chinese Web Novel Styles? I've talked with my friend earlier today about this, and he told me as far as he know there wasn't any introductory article on the topic.
I'm asking this really because I'm trying to make my own contribution to this community. Since those "styles" are used and discussed very frequently by the readers and writers of Web Novel in China, many writers just intentionally design their stories to fit in certain styles. As the result, some of them can be used to effectively tag and categorize books in addition to their genre, and I thought that it could be helpful to write an article specifying them. So I'm actually planning to write one. But if the job has already been done by others, I just wanna avoid wasting time and energy on it.
+11 lol