Shi Nai'an es reconocido como el compilador atribuido de una obra fundamental en la literatura china, una de sus novelas clásicas más celebradas. Su contribución ofrece una profunda visión de las dinámicas sociales y las tradiciones narrativas de su época. A pesar de los escasos detalles biográficos, el impacto duradero y la importancia literaria de sus escritos son innegables. Su distintivo estilo narrativo y su profundidad temática solidifican su lugar como una figura fundacional en la historia literaria china.
Although Song Jiang is only a lowly local government official, he is loyal to the emperor and kind to all the citizens in his care. But Song is in trouble. A series of unfortunate incidents have led to him being arrested, and his political enemies are keen to see him sentenced to death.
China's great classic novel Outlaws of the Marsh, written in the fourteenth century, is a fictional account of twelfth-century events during the Song Dynasty. One by one, over a hundred men and women are forced by the harsh feudal officialdom to take to the hills. They band together and defeat every attempt of the government troops to crush them. Within this framework we find intrigue, adventure, murder, warfare, romance ... in a connected series of fascinating individual tales, told in the suspenseful manner of the traditional storyteller.
Der Roman spielt zur Zeit der Sòng-Dynastie und erzählt von Sòng Jiāng und seinem Bund, der gegen Korruption kämpft. Er thematisiert traditionelle Werte des Neokonfuzianismus und bietet reichhaltige, naturalistische Beschreibungen der Gesellschaft. Die ungekürzte Übersetzung umfasst 2000 Seiten mit umfassenden Erläuterungen.