...I cut out the line "(I've never read Journey of the West and have only seen a few episodes of Dragon Ball, but I imagine I STILL wouldn't know what was going on in this trailer even if I knew the story better)" because I thought my post would be funnier as written. Yes, I know that's Journey to the West. And I'm aware of its significance.
Actually realized I didn't have the Four Great Classical Novels in my ebook library after watching that trailer, and tried to dig them up. Found a CC-licensed translation of
JttW but, surprisingly, haven't been able to locate a public-domain translation of Water Margin (under that title, Outlaws of the Marsh, or Shuihu Zhuan). Kobo's got the
Shapiro translation for $3.50, which is a great price (especially compared to the print edition going for $30 in paperback), but it's DRM'ed and I've got a plenty-long To-Read list without downloading any Chinese epics and having to strip the DRM off them.
Looks like Project Gutenberg's got Dream of the Red Chamber in English (
I,
II) but only has the others in their original Chinese. Presumably that's because the English translations are still under copyright (though I must admit I'm surprised by the possibility that there were no English translations until the 1920's or later).
(Also if anyone signs up for Kobo to buy a thing, if you
sign up with this link my local independent bookseller gets a kickback.)