16 definitions by Tarrasque
(Archaic) A 20-year old amateur system of over 10,000 nodes maintained and run by volunteers and used by electronic bulletin board system operators to exchange e-mail.
by Tarrasque November 19, 2002
Wuxia can be crudely translated as "chivalrous warrior", and is used as an all-encompassing term to describe a genre of Chinese fiction that deals with knight-errant martial artists in the "Jianghu", or the composite fantasy world, as Eric Yin puts it, of "lumpen intelligentsia, adventurers, monks, priests, rebels, cultists, unemployed peasants and laborers, itinerant peddlers, beggars, disbanded soldiers, gangsters, smugglers, and other outcasts of society".
by Tarrasque November 19, 2002