SL Huang’s new take on the most famous Chinese novel you will ever read in English: The Water Outlaw Announcement
Tordotcom Publishing is delighted to announce that the next book by Hugo Award winner SL Huang will be Water outlaws, an epic queer fantasy full of bandits, heroes and revolution inspired by the Chinese classic Water margin. Shi Nai’an’s sprawling 14th-century novel is one of the best-known Chinese literary works, spawning sequels, spinoffs, numerous adaptations, […]
Netflix’s decision to adapt Chinese novel “The Three Bodies Problem” sparks controversy
Streaming giant Netflix announced on September 1 that it would adapt The Three-Body Problem trilogy, the popular Chinese science fiction novel, in an original series with a crew of stars. While the news has thrilled fans around the world, some are wondering how the film will adapt the book, make its elements Chinese, and whether […]
A Chinese novel predicted the virus 40 years ago? Twitterati mystified about Wuhan-400
The novel coronavirus epidemic has claimed several lives across the world every minute and people worry about their families every day. With the virus having spread to several countries around the world, the WHO (World Health Organization) declared COVID-19 a pandemic a few weeks ago. While everyone is worried and in distress since the deadly […]
Why Shi Nai’an’s 14th-century Chinese novel continues to get modern versions
The water margin, also known in French as Outlaw of the Marais Where All men are brothers, is one of the most powerful stories to emerge from China. The book, conventionally attributed to an otherwise obscure Yuan Dynasty figure called Shi Nai’an, takes the form of a tangle of stories tied around various heroic figures […]
Why Netflix’s remake of a classic Chinese novel angers audiences
Netflix is gone and started over. The new series from the streaming giant, Legend of the monkey, was charged with money laundering after revealing that it had a distinctly non-Chinese cast. SEE ALSO: Cameron Crowe apologizes for whitewashed Emma Stone cast in ‘Aloha’ The series is a remake of a predicted classical Chinese story that […]
How to turn a sprawling classic Chinese novel into an opera
The economist today Handpicked stories, in your inbox A daily newsletter with the best of our journalism “DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER” is no ordinary production for the San Francisco Opera, America’s second largest company. To be sung in English, it had to be adapted from an 18th century Chinese novel of 2,500 pages. Its […]