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Louis Cha Leung-yung GBM OBE (Chinese: 查良鏞; 10 March 1924 – 30 October 2018), better known by his pen name Jin Yong (Chinese: 金庸), was a Chinese wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") novelist and essayist who co-founded the Hong Kong daily newspaper Ming Pao in 1959 and served as its first
He is known to most by his penname Jin Yong or Kam-yung (Cantonese), and is one of the most influential modern Chinese-language wuxia novelists of all time. He is widely regarded as the finest Chinese wuxia writer, a reputation based on 15 wuxia novels and short stories he wrote from 1955 to 1972.
The Legend of the Condor Heroes (Chinese: 射鵰英雄傳) is a wuxia novel by Chinese writer Jin Yong (Louis Cha). It is the first part of the Condor Trilogy and is followed by The Return of the Condor Heroes and The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber. It was first serialised between 1 January 1957 and 19 May 1959 in Hong Kong Commercial Daily.
Oct 31, 2018 · Novelist Jin Yong — the pen name for writer and journalist Louis Cha — has died, triggering tributes and mourning from his fans.
Oct 31, 2018 · He's been referred to as the JRR Tolkien of Chinese literature and the grandfather of martial arts novels - but very few people have heard of him outside the Chinese-speaking world. Novelist...
In 1955 Jin Yong (Zha Liangyong) started to serialize Shu jian en chou lu (The Book and the Sword) in Xinwanbao (“New Evening Post”), which he followed with 13 additional serialized novels in his own newspaper, Ming Pao. Another significant wuxia novel writer is Liang Yusheng (Chen… Read More
Nov 7, 2018 · Jin Yong, who has been called the J.R.R. Tolkien of Chinese literature, dazzled readers by creating worlds with characteristics of the American Wild West or Batman’s Gotham, with “chaotic good” characters who fought for justice in unorthodox and heroic ways.
Louis Cha Leung-yung, better known by his pen name Jin Yong, was a Chinese wuxia novelist and essayist who co-founded the Hong Kong daily newspaper Ming Pao in 1959 and served as its first editor-in-chief.
Oct 31, 2018 · Famous Chinese martial arts novelist Louis Cha Leung-yung, more widely known by his pen name Jin Yong, died at 94 in Hong Kong, Oct.30.
Nov 2, 2018 · JIN YONG. Louis Cha, the newsman and master storyteller whose unputdownable wuxia novels made him the most popular living Chinese author in his lifetime, has died in Hong Kong at the age of 94...
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