Guide to the classics: The Water Margin, China's outlaw novel
- Written by Josh Stenberg, Lecturer in Chinese Studies, University of Sydney
Li Kui (李逵), one of the characters in The Water Margin, battles tigers after they killed his mother. Utagawa Kuniyoshi, between between 1845 and 1850. Wikimedia
The Water Margin, also known in English as Outlaws of the Marsh or All Men Are Brothers, is one of the most powerful narratives to emerge from China. The book, conventionally...
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