Non-Fic How long have people been translating Asian novels?

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  1. Pyrenose

    Pyrenose Well-Known Member

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    So I just got curious about the history of novel translation. How long does it date back? What were the original platforms before NU?
     
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    SpiralGust Well-Known Member

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    Long long ago
     
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    MrNebulist Well-Known Member

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    Your question is way unspecific. People have been translating Asian novels for centuries.
     
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    2006 for Japanese Novels on Bakatsuki and likely before that. Chinese novels on SCPnet started around 2003
     
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    Goblin Sleuth Well-Known Member

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    LONG time.
     
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    Before NU, every site are a saperated entitiy. You gotta google the site after you search for it in mangaupdates.
    Baka tsuki and spcnet are one of the early platform tho.
    For jp and cn novels respectively.
    I dont think korean translation are a thing yet unless it was manhua.
     
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    Well you see there was this little site called ahoupdates, which quickly lost the battle with novelupdates once the features and ability to stay up and not crash due to traffic started being better over here. Before that it was mostly rss feeds and going from novel blog to novel blog via connected blogs. Oh and bakatsuki was also a big one.
     
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    Even before He-Man became a Legend, bless his soul. May he find peace in his disappearing acts.
     
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    Skeletor finally had his day, I suppose :notlikeblob:
     
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    Asf 《《The aria of souls》》

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    he-man got into fights with his wife and got family troubles before dissapearing. *cough*NTR*cough*
     
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    he has been inmortalized!! don't worry!!
    skeletor will never prevail!!
    Glory to He-Man!!!!
     
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    Frozen ink Legally had harem『Cathulu』Power of Love & Evil』

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    bakatsuki?desu
     
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    AwwGasm Knows some things.

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    Many years.

    You might have heard of a certain physical medium known as paper, used to inscribe words.

    Novels were put onto paper and a bunch of them completed would be called a 'book'.
     
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    No, like online Asian novel translation :)
     
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    How did you find that out? :blobReach:
     
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    Thanks for answering my question everyone.
     
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    Asf 《《The aria of souls》》

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    Dont really remember wether its from WW or from when he quits stellar back then. The NTR part is a joke.. but he did have family problems .
     
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    Can't say anything about Japanese novels besides that it blew up in popularity during Baka-Tsuki's peak. Chinese novels as we know it really got attention with Stellar Transformations, but I'd say RWX's work on Coiling Dragon was the one that truly started the trend.
     
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    well once he came back again and syarted the upgrade specialist. . . .
     
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    For Chinese novels, there were a few places translating wuxia (the actual wuxia genre). Wuxiamania, Wuxiasociety, spcnet, Among the Rivers and Lakes, and there was onebefore all of those but I can't remember what it was called. And Wuxiapedia as well. Stellar Transformations and Coiling Dragon began on spcnet (which triggered the CN webnovel boom that pretty much took over spcnet and basically put an end to wuxia translation and is also the reason so many people use "wuxia" to refer to all these webnovels that are not actually wuxia), but the CD threads had so many comments that it was hard to keep up with the chapter releases so Ren made Wuxiaworld to make it more manageable.

    And these older forums began in the early 2000s. Like 2001-2002 or something. Might have been something before then too, not sure.
     
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