Chat corner 45: Silver Dawn

[annathecrow]

Welcome to this week’s chat corner!

Optional prompt

This week’s optional prompt is “The Vow of Silver Dawn”, which is… a canon Chinese web-novel??? Written by someone with the pseudonym “His Majesty the King”???

I suspect not many of us has read it (or even known about it), especially since as far as I can tell from Wkp there isn’t an official English translation, but still, interesting and worth talking about!

Comments

[kittywhite]

Vow of Silver Dawn was an attempt to cosy up to the Chinese Audience and increase popularity of the Star Wars brand in a country where it’s traditionally not been very popular.
It’s set in the High Republic era but conveniently 100 years after the main books and has no ties to the ongoing series.
There is an ongoing fan translation out there but I haven’t bothered to read it, I’m not interested and probably wouldn’t understand the Chinese Cultural aspects present.
Interestingly, Japan has always enjoyed Star Wars and there seems to be a push to get them more involved too, newer books are getting translated into Japanese and there’s an ongoing manga collaboration.

[annathecrow]

Japan and SW -- oh yeah, and there has been SW: Visions as well. I wonder if all this support isn't also because The Powers That Be are into Japanese media in turn? I mean, the inspiration in The Book of Boba Fett is pretty obvious.