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[Randy W]

from Abacus

 

china's new star wars novel

 

 

How Disney and Tencent plan to make China fall for Star Wars

 

China’s first Star Wars novel will be released chapter-by-chapter… and it’s all canon

 

 

A fan dressed in costume attends a promotional event for Star Wars: The Force Awakens at the Great Wall. (Picture: Reuters)

 

 

The world and story of Star Wars has been shaped by plenty of artists, like JJ Abrams, Ron Howard and Jon Favreau. Now you can add a new name to the list: His Majesty the King.

That’s the name used by a Chinese online author tasked with writing a new Star Wars novel just for China. And Tencent’s China Literature, the country’s biggest online publisher, confirmed that the book will be canon.

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The new novel will try to accommodate local tastes. A report posted by the official Star Wars Weibo account said last week that the new book will be an “authentic Star Wars story with Chinese characteristics.” The author elaborated slightly on this.

“Using a Chinese building, a Chinese name or a Chinese face is not enough,” said His Majesty the King. “Within the (Star Wars) system, there’s no limitation on writing a story of Chinese people.”

(China Literature at first agreed to, then declined, our request to interview His Majesty the King. Lucasfilm did not respond to our request for comment.)

 

 

[Randy W]

from Merriam-Webster

 

 

What is the difference between cannon and canon?

Noun (1)

Cannon and canon are occasionally confused by writers, but the two words have independent origins, and do not share a meaning. Cannon is most frequently found used in the sense of "a large gun," and can be traced to the Old Italian word cannone, which means "large tube." Canon, however, comes from the Greek word kanōn, meaning "rule." Although canon has a variety of meanings, it is most often found in the senses of "a rule or law of a church," "an accepted rule," or "a sanctioned or accepted group or body of related works." A loose cannon is "a dangerously uncontrollable person or thing." There are no loose canons.