How did MDZS go global, and how do you feel about Seven Seas keeping Chinese terms + using heavy glossaries?
Hey sweethearts!
I'm researching the global readership of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation for an academic paper on untranslatability, paratexts and the likes for a seminar of mine, and I'd love to ask for help and hear some of your input.
How did the story first become popular and circulate globally ? (Before an official release was ever in talk)
How do you feel about the official Seven Seas English release using heavy glossaries, character guides, and footnotes to keep concepts and names in Chinese rather than replacing them with generic Western fantasy words? Do you feel these extra materials are necessary for global readers to appreciate the story's Daoist/Xianxia roots without "Westernizing" the text? Did having to refer to the glossaries, character guides, and footnotes make the reading experience richer, or did you ever find it confusing?
Would you rather these concepts were translated in English?
How did the early fan-translation community help you understand the Chinese cultural/cultivation concepts before the official books came out with glossaries?
Would you consider the novel a "world literature"?
Thanks for the input!!