Introductions

[geraineon]

Welcome! You can use this post to share a little bit of yourself! Feel free to also just post an introduction to the community instead of replying to this post! You don't have to follow any format, but here are some prompts:

1. What are you currently reading?
2. What is your favourite cnovel?
3. Do you have a favourite author?
4. What are your other hobbies and interests?
5. What do you hope to see from this community?

Comments

[larryhammer]

Current reading: A Will Eternal (一念永恒) by Er Gen (耳根) -- which, yes, took me a long time to get to. I tend to jump back and forth between xianxia and historical romance. My favorite cnovel is, um, I dunno, I'll name two: Way of Choices (择天记) by Mao Ni (猫腻) and Eight Treasures Trousseau (八宝妆) by Yue Xia Die Ying (月下蝶影).

In addition to reading cnovels (usually in translation), I translate classic Chinese poetry -- usually Tang Dynasty, but sometimes ranging back to Han and up to Song. Drafts of most of what I've done are here.

Mostly I'm looking for recommendations of what to read next.

[snowynight]

Your poem translation project is impressive!

[larryhammer]

Thankee.

[geraineon]

Hi and welcome!

Love that you're translating poems, will definitely check them out~

I love the diversity of the novels named so far. The only one I know from your list is Eight Treasures Trousseau (八宝妆), haha

Hope you enjoy your time here!

[larryhammer]

The other two are quite definitely xianxia, adventure stories with escalating martial-arts-doaist power-ups that come with the genre. Way of Choices has more than just that, but A Will Immortal is definitely bog-standard for the genre if better written than most.

I have a habit, when I take on a new language, of using poetry for practice texts. My previous language was Japanese, and I got a couple books out of that. I'm getting a manuscript of Chinese poems ready for submission, hopefully over the summer.

[geraineon]

I have a habit, when I take on a new language, of using poetry for practice texts. My previous language was Japanese, and I got a couple books out of that. I'm getting a manuscript of Chinese poems ready for submission, hopefully over the summer.

Jiayou for the Chinese poems~!

[larryhammer]

谢谢!

[katzenfabrik]

I really enjoy your Chinese poetry translations! Good luck with the manuscript!

[larryhammer]

Thankee!