Water Margin
Chinese novel
Also known as: “All Men Are Brothers”, “Outlaws of the Marsh”, “Shui-hu chuan”, “Shuihuzhuan”(Show More)
Water Margin, ancient Chinese vernacular novel known from several widely varying manuscripts under the name Shuihuzhuan. Its variations are so extreme as to make the work the most textually complex in Chinese literature; the text cannot be dated with accuracy, and its authors cannot be identified. Based in part on ancient legends and oral tradition, Water Margin is generally divided into simpler text and fuller text versions, the earliest of which date from the early...
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