As a reviewer, I heavily debated with myself how to introduce this review and bring you into the world of S. L. Huang’s The Water Outlaws. With a work like this, there are a lot of handles to grasp, but which is the right handle to grasp onto to start the explanation, the discussion, the importance of this work. Finally, I have decided to go with a historical approach, because, in the end, as good as this novel is as a standalone work, it is a work that is not only in dialogue with a classic piece of litera
So let’s start with a little bit of background. In Classic Chinese literature, there are a number of canonical novels, core books that are the backbone of a strand of Chinese history, culture and society. These are the books that, once upon a time, everyone who was literate could quote from, read, enjoyed, and shared. These were foundational texts in a way that, say, the Iliad and the Odyssey were for Classic Greece and Rome. There is, as there is with all canons, some debate over the lineup, but four novel
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