Why people want an ocidental approach in an oriental history?

[TheJudger]

So, as any author, i love reading works from other authors and see how they do their work, so maybe i can learn with it and be better at writing my own history.
And, as an reader, i simply love xianxia stories that have an good approach on the topic and tropes, xianxia stories that has an good character development and a good power system that is inovative.
I usually read my histories here, in the WN and in RR.
And, specially on RR, i've seen so much stories marked down as xianxia, but its not really xianxia, its just like... How do i say? Cultivation, but with european fantasy in the middle of it, like, the names aren't even xianxia, nothing is xianxia on the story, except the fact that the person sits down and gatter energy.
Not complaning about it tho, as a good amount of these stories are pretty good, but, i mean, sometimes i just want to see some xianxia chinese shit, where there is an new approach, but still, oriental enough, and it is getting pretty rare things like that.
Even when it is in an xianxia oriental world, the author try so much to innovate in their power system, that the history isn't even xianxia anymore, but still tagged with xianxia and chinese names

 

[Corty]

People should not use Chinese names when they can't put them together. There is meaning in them and they are not like our naming conventions. Don't do it until you know what you are doing.

Ps that is why I also used made up names not eastern-sounding ones. It's cringe otherwise.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

It's Enevitable when the culture gets shared. Many Asian stories do the same when they adapt medieval European culture.

 

[Datal0g]

It's Enevitable when the culture gets shared. Many Asian stories do the same when they adapt medieval European culture.

That's a good point. My personal highlight was "Wendelin von Benno Baumeister" from "Hachi-nan tte, Sore wa Nai deshou!"
You will find really disastrous name constellations, especially if the story somehow goes in the direction of European nobility.

People should not use Chinese names when they can't put them together.

Definitely - but that applies in both directions. :D

 

[Corty]

Definitely - but that applies in both directions. :D

As in? Don't write xianxia with western names or don't use eastern names in fantasy?

 

[Datal0g]

Don't write xianxia with western names or don't use eastern names in fantasy?

I would rather say - try to use the names as correctly as possible. My example above just doesn't sound right to me as a native German speaker.

 

[TheJudger]

People should not use Chinese names when they can't put them together. There is meaning in them and they are not like our naming conventions. Don't do it until you know what you are doing.

I mean, i completally agree with it, but i'm not talking only about the naming itself, like, i know that all the naming and things like that differs by culture to culture, so its pretty difficult to us to give an meaning to an name that isn't common on our culture

But, talking about power/magic system, i feel like most of the cultivation xianxia stories that is being writted by western people isn't xianxia at all. Not only naming conventions, but the way they put together each stage, the way they do each level, i feel that is not xianxia-like if you know what i mean

I guess it is good in certain ways, cause it can get off from the usual cliche that every recent xianxia stories inevitabilly falls in, but still, sometimes i just want to see different approachs of the same thing, and it is getting rarer

 

[Corty]

But, talking about power/magic system, i feel like most of the cultivation xianxia stories that is being writted by western people isn't xianxia at all. Not only naming conventions, but the way they put together each stage, the way they do each level, i feel that is not xianxia-like if you know what i mean

I imitated one, but with my own twist and fork on it. I took the basic idea behind it and transformed the concept. So it is familiar yet new. Going by all the feedback I received, I think I succeeded, so it can be done well.

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

So, as any author, i love reading works from other authors and see how they do their work, so maybe i can learn with it and be better at writing my own history.
And, as an reader, i simply love xianxia stories that have an good approach on the topic and tropes, xianxia stories that has an good character development and a good power system that is inovative.
I usually read my histories here, in the WN and in RR.
And, specially on RR, i've seen so much stories marked down as xianxia, but its not really xianxia, its just like... How do i say? Cultivation, but with european fantasy in the middle of it, like, the names aren't even xianxia, nothing is xianxia on the story, except the fact that the person sits down and gatter energy.
Not complaning about it tho, as a good amount of these stories are pretty good, but, i mean, sometimes i just want to see some xianxia chinese shit, where there is an new approach, but still, oriental enough, and it is getting pretty rare things like that.
Even when it is in an xianxia oriental world, the author try so much to innovate in their power system, that the history isn't even xianxia anymore, but still tagged with xianxia and chinese names

Oriental refers to a rather different region ... By Latin diction, China is Indian. Not oriental.

 

[NotaNuffian]

So, as any author, i love reading works from other authors and see how they do their work, so maybe i can learn with it and be better at writing my own history.
And, as an reader, i simply love xianxia stories that have an good approach on the topic and tropes, xianxia stories that has an good character development and a good power system that is inovative.
I usually read my histories here, in the WN and in RR.
And, specially on RR, i've seen so much stories marked down as xianxia, but its not really xianxia, its just like... How do i say? Cultivation, but with european fantasy in the middle of it, like, the names aren't even xianxia, nothing is xianxia on the story, except the fact that the person sits down and gatter energy.
Not complaning about it tho, as a good amount of these stories are pretty good, but, i mean, sometimes i just want to see some xianxia chinese shit, where there is an new approach, but still, oriental enough, and it is getting pretty rare things like that.
Even when it is in an xianxia oriental world, the author try so much to innovate in their power system, that the history isn't even xianxia anymore, but still tagged with xianxia and chinese names

Because it is another type of power system that people would like to take a crack in.

Also, Dragon Ball Z helps.