Water Margin

Author: Ming Shi Nian'an
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: ▼ Complete Content ▼ Sandalwood Aroma ▼ Compact and Lightweight ▼ Original Illustrations ▼ Portable — Since Water Margin was published at the turn of the Yuan and Ming dynasties, it has been relentlessly persecuted and hunted down by the ruling class, who deemed it a "book that incites banditry" and even cursed the author with the curse of "three generations of mute descendants." Yet Water Margin has remained beloved and cherished by generations of people. They say, "Without reading Water Margin, one does not know the wonders of the world." The book was copied and spread widely, allowing it to survive and endure to this day. — Soon after its publication, the celebrated Tang-Song school prose writers Tang Shunzhi and Wang Shenzhi highly praised it as "exquisitely detailed and seamlessly connected, second only to Records of the Grand Historian in literary achievement." After the Nobel laureate and renowned American writer Pearl S. Buck translated and published Water Margin, she said, "This work has always been great and full of meaning for all of humanity..."