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Site is focused on #wuxia fiction articles and translations, news, occasionally some new research. Also sometimes Chinese culture, history, and poetry.
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Wuxia Wanderings @wuxia.bsky.social · Oct 21
I compiled a list of English #wuxia translations. Over 60 entries! Want to read wuxia? Look no further:
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Wuxia Novels in English — a list
Table of Contents
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Short clip of my favorite wuxia author, Yun Zhongyue: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbNW...
#wuxia #武俠
Yun Zhongyue intro video
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April 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Part 1 of a deep dive into the various sects, schools, gangs and other groups you will encounter in wuxia novels:
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#wuxia #武俠
Schools and Sects, Gangs and Guilds: Part 1 — General Overview
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April 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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New translation: The Legendary Sword, the original novel that the 1980 film The Sword starring Adam Cheng and directed by Patrick Tam was based on.
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#wuxia #fantasy
The Legendary Sword: The Original Novel of the 1980 film The Sword
I’m starting a translation of Huang Ying’s novel The Legendary Sword《名劍》, which was released in late 1979 and was adapted into the film The Sword in 1980, starring Adam Cheng and direct…
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December 9, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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New Snowblade Vagabond story: The Three Whirlwind Xia by Long Chengfeng
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New Snowblade Vagabond story: The Three Whirlwind Xia
Tragedy strikes the Iron Swallow Gang, and Xiao Family Castle is in turmoil! A bloody storm is unleashed on the jianghu, and everyone is in danger. Jianghu wanderer, Snowblade Vagabond turns the ra…
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December 6, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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New Post: A Note on Some Key Terms in Daoist Cultivation
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#xianxia #Daoism #Taoism #fantasy
A Note on Some Key Terms in Daoist Cultivation
The following is an excerpt from pg. 6-9 of Awakening to Reality: The “Regulated Verses” of the Wuzhen Pian, translated by Daoism scholar Fabrizio Pregadio. Awakening to Reality 悟真篇 is …
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December 6, 2024 at 3:57 AM
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I've got a new complete translation of another Snowblade Vagabond novel: The Demon Staff by Long Chengfeng:
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The Demon Staff — New Complete Translation
I’ve just completed a translation of another Snowblade Vagabond story: The Demon Staff《魔杖》by Long Chengfeng 龍乘風. Previously I have translated the first story in the series, Snowblade Vagabond…
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December 3, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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I'm just one chapter away from finishing translating my third Snowblade Vagabond story (it's called The Demon Staff).
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December 3, 2024 at 8:32 AM
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New post: My personal story about how I learned Chinese and began translating: actualwuxiatranslations.wordpress.com/2024/11/28/l...
#wuxia #Chinese #translating
Learning Chinese — The Way I Did It
I’m a white guy from the US, so I started with a blank slate w/r/t Chinese learning. I moved to Taiwan in 2010 with my wife and have been living here ever since. My first steps learning Chine…
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November 28, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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《風雨燕歸來》(The Weathered Swallow Returns) by Wolong Sheng 臥龍生, 1964. This cover is a later reprint. Sequel to Flyring Swallow Startles the Dragon《飛燕驚龍》The swallow in wuxia novels is code for a woman. Dragon here refers to the villain's gang. Cover designed by Peng Huarong 彭華茙
#wuxia #books #booksky 💙📚
Cover of Wolong Sheng's wuxia novel The Weathered Swallow Returns.
October 25, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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Wuxia novel Heavenly Whirlwind《天香飆》by Wolong Sheng 臥龍生. 1981 reprint, original 1961. Not sure of artist, but back cover designed by Peng Huarong 彭華茙. Perhaps WLS' masterpiece, it switches MCs partway through, Gu Hanxiang seeking revenge for the murder of her husband, Hu Boling. 💙📚
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Cover of wuxia novel Heavenly Whirlwind by Wolong Sheng
October 23, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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Leather case my dad made for my Kindle Paperwhite. The cutout on the site allows you to charge it without taking it out of the case. Bonus: now my Kindle smells like leather! 💙📚
#booksky #books #reading
Handmade leather Kindle Paperwhite case, front Handmade leather Kindle Paperwhite case, back Handmade leather Kindle Paperwhite case, velcro flap open Handmade leather Kindle Paperwhite case, side view showing cutout revealing charging ports.
October 22, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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A clip from an unreleased #wuxia documentary about the early days of wuxia fiction in Taiwan:
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The Early Days of Wuxia in Taiwan
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October 21, 2024 at 6:46 AM
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Currently reading:《玉扇神劍》(Jade Fan, Divine Sword) by Cao Ruobing 曹若冰, 1961.
Textbook example of the typical traditional wuxia novel. In just ch.1 we already many of the standard tropes (cont…)
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Book cover:《玉扇神劍》(Jade Fan, Divine Sword) by Cao Ruobing 曹若冰, 1961 Text pages of 《玉扇神劍》(Jade Fan, Divine Sword) by Cao Ruobing 曹若冰, 1961
October 21, 2024 at 5:32 AM
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A brief look at "nascent souls" in wuxia fiction and a brief look at early cultivation novels
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#wuxia #xuanhuan #xianxia #fantasy
Wuxia, Nascent Souls, and a brief history of Xianxia and Xuanhuan
The illustration below is for a wuxia novel called《冷劍娥眉》(Cold Sword Beauty) by Xiao Yi 蕭逸 which was serialized in Wuxia World magazine《武俠世界》issues #585-586, November 7-14, 1970.
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October 21, 2024 at 3:38 AM
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I compiled a list of English #wuxia translations. Over 60 entries! Want to read wuxia? Look no further:
wuxiawanderings.substack.com/p/wuxia-nove...
Wuxia Novels in English — a list
Table of Contents
wuxiawanderings.substack.com
October 21, 2024 at 12:54 AM