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Title: The Deer and The Cauldron by Louis Cha, John Minford ISBN: 0-19-590323-4 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Not just martial arts and adventure
Comment: I read the Chinese version of this when I was in high school. I don't think I will be exaggerating if I say that Louis Cha is probably one of the most widely read Chinese writer in the 20th century. You may stumble across a lot of Chinese who haven't read Dreams of a Red Mansion, but they have read Cha.
Mr. Cha is very knowledgeable of Chinese history, literature and geography, and has managed to incorporate much of his knowledge into his works. Therefore, if the reader is interested in and somewhat familiar with Chinese culture, you will find the reading more enjoyable and not just an adventure/martial arts story. His characters will take you through tradition, culture, poetry, and landmarks. Verses of famous poets from hundreds to 2 to 3 thousand years ago are quoted by the characters at times, quite appropriate to their situation in the novels. I have read somewhere that the Chinese government is now using excerpts from Cha's novels in textbooks.
I really hope there will be more translations of other works out soon for everybody to enjoy. Some people will dispute whether the "Deer" book is the best. Almost all of Cha's 4-volume sets are extremely popular. Many claim that his third book (can't translate the name) is the best.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hugely popular Chinese novelist finally available in English
Comment: A swashbucklling adventure story of 17th century Manchu-dominated China, THE DEER AND THE CAULDRON is by repute the very best of the thirteen "martial arts novels" written by Louis Cha, "the Alexandre Dumas of Asia." Published originally as a newspaper serial in Hong Kong, under the Chinese pseudonym Jin Yong, this beautifully constructed novel may be a better book than any by Dumas, who certainly never created a central character as seductively self-interested as Cha's boisterously foul-mouthed Wei Xiaobao, - who becomes "Trinket" in translator John Minford's version. Trinket is an incorrigible teenage rogue from the "pleasure quarter" of Yangzhou who by guile and good fortune becomes simultaneously a confidant of the boy emperor Kang Xi and a leader of the loyalist martial arts outlaws of the Heaven and Earth Society. John Minford's graceful translation gives the most popular Chinese novelist on earth a fighting chance of winning a brand new legion of fans.
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Rating: 5
Summary: The Legendary Couple
Comment: I just found out that there is the title to the third book of Cha. It is the "Legendary Couple" (certainly not as poetic a title as the Chinese version). It is not my favorite because I think it is too sad overall, but many people like it. So for those who like Louis Cha, you may want to give it a try.
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Title: The Deer and the Cauldron: The Third Book by Louis Cha, John Minford, Rachel May ISBN: 0195903277 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Book and Sword (The Martial Arts Novels of Louis Cha) by Louis Cha, John Minford, Graham Earnshw ISBN: 0195907272 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2004 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain: Martial Arts Fiction in Contemporary Chinese Literature by Yung Chin, Olivia Mok, Jim Young, Jin Yong ISBN: 9622017339 Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr Pub. Date: 1996 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: A Dream of Red Mansions (4-Volume Boxed Set) by Cao Xueqin, Gao E, Yang Xianyi ISBN: 7119006436 Publisher: Acacia Press, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre (Heaven Sword & Dragon Sabre) by Wing Shing Ma, Louis Cha, Philip Ho, Shawn Sanders, Angel Cheng ISBN: 1588992438 Publisher: ComicsOne Corporation Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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