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Post by reinafu on Jun 29, 2015 8:11:20 GMT
Sorry for my ignorance, but...What is xianxia, please ?
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Post by caiyi on Jun 29, 2015 12:36:06 GMT
I might be wrong here. But, I think xianxia is wuxia story that has supernatural element, like those Chinese Paladin stories.
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Post by reinafu on Jun 29, 2015 17:31:02 GMT
Ah...Thank you for the information.
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Post by yufeng on Jul 2, 2015 11:39:32 GMT
Yes, examples of xianxia are Chinese Paladin, Zu Mountain Warriors, Zhu Xian etc.
Instead of martial clans, these are often celestial clans that also operate in the Wulin/ Jianghu.
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Post by siuyiu on Jul 2, 2015 18:58:04 GMT
it's interesting how huanzhu louzhu was one of the first wuxia writers, but his supernatural wuxia stuff went out of fashion and was considered "old" when jin yong and liang yusheng came along and defined what our parents and our generation considered "new" wuxia. and now the old becomes new and even has a genre name! funny how these things happen. though i doubt many of the xianxia readers have actually read his stuff. seen the adaptations, no doubt, but read the source material?
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Post by yufeng on Jul 6, 2015 6:55:19 GMT
it's interesting how huanzhu louzhu was one of the first wuxia writers, but his supernatural wuxia stuff went out of fashion and was considered "old" when jin yong and liang yusheng came along and defined what our parents and our generation considered "new" wuxia. and now the old becomes new and even has a genre name! funny how these things happen. though i doubt many of the xianxia readers have actually read his stuff. seen the adaptations, no doubt, but read the source material? Right but sometimes it difficult to distinguish between a Xuanhuan and a Xianxia. Many of the Xuanhuan writers actually have no intention of writing Wuxia/ Xianxia but they will post in that particular section as wuxia/xianxia usually emphasis on plots and mystery. They did that as wuxia has more readers. So half of the stories are in the wrong section.... So i guess those older generation works are now considered xuanhuan as most are based in the wulin/ jianghu setting 
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