From Forgotten Tales of the Sui.
A Chinese Historical Novel by Yuan Yuling. Translated and edited, with introduction and annotation, by Robert E. Hegel.
Newly carved and illustrated, with critical commentary by Whistling Sword Studio from blocks stored at Famous Mountains Village. Hong Kong: Renditions Books of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2024.
From The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press:
“The novel Forgotten Tales of the Sui (Sui shi yiwen 隋史遺文, 1633) was in fact nearly forgotten in China, because much of its best parts were copied into the better known Romance of the Sui and the Tang (Sui Tang yanyi 隋唐演義, 1695). Those best parts were the adventures of Qin Shubao 秦叔寶. But the earlier novel has a fuller version and that is what is translated here: the coming-of-age tale of Qin Shubao as the scion of a line of righteous generals as he tries to establish himself in a perilous world and, through military prowess, earn the weapons inherited from his famous forebears.”
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