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| original title = 水滸傳
''Water Margin'' (Traditional: 水滸傳 Simplified: 水浒传), also known as ''Outlaws Of The Marsh'', is one of the "Four Great Classical Novels" of Chinese literature along with ''[[Journey to The West (Literature)|Journey to The West]]'', ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Literature)|Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'' and ''[[Dream of the Red Chamber (Literature)|Dream of the Red Chamber]]''.▼
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| author = Luo Guanzhong
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| elevator pitch = One of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, based on the lives and deaths of bandit leader Song Jiang and his [[108]] bandits.
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▲'''''Water Margin''''' (Traditional: 水滸傳 Simplified: 水浒传), also known as ''Outlaws
The novel was written during the 14th century, although it is clearly based on older folk stories. Authorship is traditionally attributed to two authors, Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong, but modern scholarly opinion is that Shi Nai'an is simply a pen-name for Luo Guanzhong, who also wrote the definitive version of ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms''.
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The earliest surviving example of the [[Wuxia]] genre, ''Water Margin'' has been translated many times, and adapted to other media such as film, television and comics. Probably the best known adaption is the successful 1973 Nippon Television series which was broadcast in many countries, effectively introducing this epic work to Western popular culture. Perhaps the ''second'' best known, and much much looser, adaptation is the ''[[Suikoden]]'' video game series. Mostly just the first game, with the rest drawing basically ''nothing'' from the original story other than the concept of 108 protagonists.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Hu the Third (a.k.a. Ten Feet of Azure), Sun the Second (a.k.a. the Night Witch) and Mistress Gu (a.k.a. the Tigress).
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Every one of the 108 outlaws.
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* [[I Am a Humanitarian]] - Sun Er Niang runs a shop where she sells buns of "mystery meat" (i.e., the chopped up corpses of former guests). Lu Zhishen actually decides to ''become sworn brothers'' with this woman's accomplice and husband. After they narrowly made him into a human meat bun.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Gao Qiu and a ton of other corrupt officials, who get away with poisoning and killing the remaining "heroes" scott free.
* [[Kill Them All]]: {{spoiler|[[Dropped a Bridge
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Well there are well over a hundred.
* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: What Gao Qiu wanted to do to Lin Chong so Lin's wife could be up for grabs. Wu Song's brother was murdered by his wife when she gained a lover on the side.
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[[Category:Historical Fiction Literature]]
[[Category:Classic Literature]]▼
[[Category:Water Margin]]
[[Category:Literature]]
[[Category:Literature of the 14th century]]
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