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Short article about Jin Yong in this week's Economist


laurenth

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I'm not sure if someone has already mentioned it, but this week's edition of The Economist (Feb. 24th 2018, page 68) has a short article about a new "spirited" translation (so they say) of part 1 of Jin Yong's Legends of the Condor Heroes. I thought it might interest wuxia buffs and Jin Yong's fans.

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If The Economist won't let you in, The Straits Times will:

Jin Yong's Chinese martial arts novel published in English for first time

 

...and The Telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/world/china-watch/culture/legends-of-condor-heroes/

 

and Amazon (you can read the first few pages in your local Amazon)

 

 

 

 

 

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Another article on the English translation of Jin Hong's "Legend of the Condor Heroes" volume 1: "A Hero Born". This is by the novelist Marcel Theroux, writing for The Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/16/hero-born-kung-fu-chivalry-wuxia-jin-yong-legends-condor-heroes-translation

 

I couldn't agree more with his concluding personal impression :

 

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As I read Anna Holmwood’s vibrant translation – gripped by the unashamed narrative zest and primary-coloured fairytale world – I felt a slight regret that I was coming to this novel in my fifth decade. It would be a wonderful initiation into a lifelong enthusiasm for China, its history and civilisation, its vast and chronically misunderstood presence in the world. 

 

 

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