The Water Margin
Outlaws of the Marsh
Recommended by Marianne Bastid-Bruguière, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #22 in Chinese, Ranked #65 in Kung Fu — see more rankings.
This edition of the classic J. H. Jackson translation features a new preface and introduction by Edwin Lowe, which gives the history of the book and puts the story into perspective for modern readers. First translated into English by Pearl S. Buck in 1933 as All Men Are Brothers, the original edition of the J.H.... more
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Marianne Bastid-Bruguière I’ve always been interested in Chinese attitudes towards life: towards what happens, the misfortunes of life, and how they handle life in their society. And I think that, although you get a lot of hard facts through the historical record, of course, in order to get the mood and to understand deeper you need to look into literature. The first novel I really like is The Water Margin. It’s one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature, but it’s very different because it’s a story of bandits – in a way it’s like a Chinese equivalent of Robin Hood. The novel came out of stories told... (Source)
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