Eh... I will agree that Water Margins doesn't feel like it falls in the wuxia bucket (for me personally as well).
I feel like the current wuxia genre, especially when used by the audience colloquially, is more defined by (more) modern works, exemplified by authors like Jin Yong, Gu Long, etc. Older classical works don't quite fit because they're too far removed from the context and era of these works.
Water Margins to me feels like it might fit better into historical fantasy... But then again that would put it in the same bucket as the likes of 隋唐演义. Hm.
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Date: 2025-02-24 01:06 (UTC)I feel like the current wuxia genre, especially when used by the audience colloquially, is more defined by (more) modern works, exemplified by authors like Jin Yong, Gu Long, etc. Older classical works don't quite fit because they're too far removed from the context and era of these works.
Water Margins to me feels like it might fit better into historical fantasy... But then again that would put it in the same bucket as the likes of 隋唐演义. Hm.