The Water Outlaws
S.L. Huang
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Shi Nai’an’s sprawling fourteenth century novel is one of China’s best-known works of literature, spawning sequels, spin-offs, numerous adaptations, and fields of study. Originally published during the dynastic upheaval between the fall of the Yuan Dynasty and the rise of the Ming, it’s been banned by nervous governments and then canonized as one of the Four Great Novels of Chinese literature, but remains the least known to English-language readers.
The Water Outlaws brings this raucous classic into the vivid present of the genre and turns it upside down. In Huang’s take, the famously bawdy bandits are women and genderqueer martial artsts ready to break the law, and the jianghu has never been ready for them.
This is wuxia fantasy that owes as much to classic Hong Kong action movies as it does to classic literature, from stunts professional, armorer, and award-winning author S. L. Huang.
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