Moreover, Condor Heroes was banned in Taiwan until 1979, so underground versions were produced that barely resembled the originals. The 2003 edition in particular was not necessarily well-received by all fans some still prefer the earlier versions. Cha himself, including characters being edited out entirely, when he later decided them to be superfluous. Each edition features significant revisions by Dr. It’s like in jazz music, like an arrangement.”Īdding to the confusion, the Condor Heroes trilogy exists in three different editions: 1959, 1976, and 2003. It’s not the English translation it’s a translation. “There’s no such thing as a perfect translation. Stember cautions me against making snap judgements when assessing Holmwood’s work. “There’s no one way to translate,” says Nick Stember, a translator of Chinese comics and science fiction (and the former translation editor for Ricepaper). Cha really mention a detail so funny, about the character having snot? And did that snot really bubble from the servant’s nose? Holmwood describes, “Snot bubbled in his nose.” Lotus injures a servant in order to coerce him into helping them get medicine from the royal pharmacy. Knowing how different Chinese and English are, I wondered, “Will Holmwood’s translation be reliable? Can it recreate the effect of the Chinese original?”įor example, in A Hero Born, Lotus Huang and Guo Jing sneak into the Jin palace. Holmwood is editing that one, while translating Volume Three for its proposed February 2020 publication. At the writing of this article, Amazon lists that the title will be available for purchase in late January 2019. Gigi Chang is translating Volume Two, with the title, A Bond Undone. Published in February 2018, Holmwood’s translation has been such a huge success that MacLehose Press plans to translate one volume each year, until the entire set is completed. Legends of the Condor Heroes – English translation (MacLehose Press)
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