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Water Margin (simplified Chinese: 水浒传; traditional Chinese: 水滸傳; pinyin: Shuǐhǔ Zhuàn), also called Outlaws of the Marsh or All Men Are Brothers, is a Chinese novel from the Ming dynasty that is one of the preeminent Classic Chinese Novels. Attributed to Shi Nai'an, Water Margin was one of the earliest Chinese novels written in vernacular Mandarin Chinese.
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TTTA extracted 741 structured relationships around Water Margin. Examples in this analysis include Water Margin → Author → Shi Nai'an (subject to academic debate) and Water Margin → Dewey Decimal → 895.1346. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water Margin | Author | Shi Nai'an (subject to academic debate) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Water Margin | Dewey Decimal | 895.1346 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Water Margin | Genre | Historical fiction | 1.00 | infobox |
| Water Margin | Language | Written vernacular Chinese | 1.00 | infobox |
| Water Margin | Original text | Water Margin at Chinese Wikisource | 1.00 | infobox |
| Water Margin | Publication date | Uncertain, perhaps mid-14th century; definitely before 1524 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Water Margin | Publication place | China | 1.00 | infobox |
| Water Margin | Published in English | 71- and 100-chapter version: 1980 120-chapter version: 1994–2002 71-chapter version: 2010 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Water Margin | Set in | Mount Liang, c. 1120 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Water Margin | Translator | J. H. Jackson, Pearl S. Buck, Sidney Shapiro, Alex and John Dent-Young | 1.00 | infobox |
| Water Margin | is a | compilation of folk tales titled Old Affairs of the Xuanhe Period | 0.90 | text |
| Water Margin | is a | only one | 0.90 | text |
| Water Margin | is a | work of socialism | 0.90 | text |
| Water Margin | is a | political novel.According to Li Shi | 0.90 | text |
| Water Margin | is a | 100-chapter version published in 1589 | 0.90 | text |
The concept neighborhoods around Water Margin bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Water, Novel and Chinese. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Water Margin, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Water Margin with Themes. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Water Margin to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Themes, Literary Connections & History, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Water Margin · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout