# Great Wuxia novels in English?

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**Created:** [July 16, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-wuxia-novels-in-english/255478 "2004-07-16T20:48:24Z")
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### Author: ![drhess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@drhess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drhess)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-wuxia-novels-in-english/255478/1 "2004-07-16T20:48:24Z")

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Are there any great, or really good as literature, wuxia novels (Chinese martial arts legends/action stories) in English? (I think wuxia is the right spelling.)

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### Author: ![drhess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@drhess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drhess)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-wuxia-novels-in-english/255478/2 "2004-07-17T14:19:18Z")

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Ok, I found out about the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, etc. and the Judge Dee novels. Any others?