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Adapted into films, TV series and even video games, Cha's wuxia novels have attracted fans outside the Chinese-speaking regions. His works have the unique ability to appeal to both highbrow and lowbrow tastes, transcend geographical and cultural barriers, achieving a much greater success than any other contemporary writer. Cha's works written between and earned him a reputation as one of the most popular wuxia writers ever, with over million copies of his works sold worldwide. And the literary giant's death may ignite a resurgence of wuxia novel. Widely known as Jin Yong among Chinese readers, the Hong Kong-based wuxia writer has influenced generations through his voluminous works.
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After all, we have The Manchurian Candidate, and bombard c4 manual shifter What with all the snow and those whitewashed adobe walls, it was hard for him at first to make out the village. However, this would be somewhat akin to her calling me an Algonquin warrior. Calamity had written down the address for me and I found it easily enough: a semi-detached house in a nondescript row with those metal gates and railings which council houses seem always to have painted either blue, red or yellow. As she did so a waiter brought three curries on a tray and scraped them all on to one plate for her.
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A Hero Born by Jin Yong review – the gripping world of kung fu chivalry As martial artists square off, evocatively named strikes are responded to with equally evocatively named parries: Search the Sea, Behead the Dragon Seize the Basket by the Handle and, only to be used in extremis, the desperation move: Sword of Mutual Demise. To paraphrase Miss Jean Brodie: for those of us who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing we like. It blends real and fictional characters, teems with incident - reversals, unexpected meetings, betrayals, cliffhangers - and, most of all, dwells for page after page on lovingly described combat. A plot summary barely conveys the extraordinary energy of this book. It begins with Guo in utero, when his father is murdered by forces loyal to the occupying Jin army and his pregnant mother flees to Mongolia. Set in 13th-century China, this novel follows the fortunes of its hero, Guo Jing, from birth to adolescence.
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Since his first novels were published in serial form in Hong Kong during the s, Jin Yong - the pen name of Louis Cha Leung-yung - has become the most widely read Chinese writer alive. He passed away on October 30th at the age of 94 of organ failure in Hong Kong. His works have been translated into Korean, English, Japanese, French, Vietnamese, Bahasa Indonesian, Thai and he has many fans abroad as well, thanks to the numerous adaptations of his works made into films and television series.
His books have sold over million copies worldwide over 1 billion if one includes bootleg copies making him by far the best-selling Chinese author still alive. He is widely regarded as the finest Chinese wuxia " martial arts and chivalry" writer, a reputation based on 15 wuxia novels and short stories he wrote from to He has a widespread, unchallenged, almost religious following in all Chinese-speaking areas, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. 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. A Hero Born by Jin Yong review – the gripping world of kung fu chivalry.By using our site, you agree to our collection of information through the use of cookies. File Name: legend of condor heroes english.