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==Profile==<br />
* '''Name:''' Louis Cha / Jin Yong (pen name)<br />
* '''Chinese:''' 金庸<br />
* '''Birthdate:''' February 1924<br />
* '''Birthplace:''' [[Haining]], [[Zhejiang]], China <br />
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==Bio==<br />
Louis Cha published twelve martial-arts novels between 1955 and 1972 under the penname<br />
Jin Yong. The novels first appeared as serials in newspapers and were later<br />
published as books, in some cases running to five volumes. Unlike some other writers in<br />
the genre, Cha always anchors his fictions in specified historical periods. His novels have<br />
been adapted many, many times – as films, as TV serials, as comic-strip graphic novels,<br />
and latterly as computer games. The third of them was The Eagle-Shooting Heroes<br />
(1957-59), collected in four volumes, which contains the characters Dongxie (Malignant<br />
Lord of the East) and Xidu (Malicious Lord of the West). In ASHES OF TIME, Wong<br />
Kar Wai has extrapolated these two characters from Cha’s narrative – with one or two<br />
others, such as Hong Qi – and has imagined what they might have been like as younger<br />
men.<br />
Louis Cha was born in 1924 in Zhejiang Province, China. He came to prominence in<br />
Hong Kong after the war as the founder and publisher of the Chinese-language<br />
newspaper Ming Pao Daily News – still the territory’s most respected and authoritative<br />
independent broadsheet. He later also founded and published the Shin Ming Daily News<br />
in Singapore. Aside from his fiction under the name Jin Yong, he has written political<br />
commentaries, journalism and historical essays; he has also served on various public<br />
bodies and played an active role in Hong Kong’s intellectual life. He retired from his<br />
publishing empire shortly before Hong Kong reverted to China’s sovereignty.<br />
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An exceptionally cultured man, steeped in Chinese history, he is also a scholar of<br />
Buddhism. He is Wynflete Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and an Honorary<br />
Fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He holds an honorary degree as Doctor of Social<br />
Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, and an honorary degree as Doctor of Literature<br />
at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Queen Elizabeth II conferred on him the<br />
O.B.E. and France has made him a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur.<br />
Despite these many honors, his fiction still goes unmentioned in most western synoptic<br />
accounts of Asian literature. This is partly because English translations have begun to<br />
appear only since 1993, and partly, no doubt, because of snobbish prejudices against<br />
genre literature. But the ‘Jin Yong’ novels, revered in Chinese communities throughout<br />
the world, develop a very ancient Chinese oral and literary tradition. Beyond their value<br />
as entertainment, they are refined and sophisticated commentaries on the philosophical<br />
traditions of Buddhism and Taoism, and analyses of the on-going struggle for a mature<br />
Chinese cultural identity.<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* The Book and the Sword - T: 書劍恩仇錄 S: 书剑恩仇录 (first published on The New Evening Post in 1955)<br />
* Sword Stained with Royal Blood - T: 碧血劍 S: 碧血剑 (first published on Hong Kong Commercial Daily in 1956)<br />
* The Legend of the Condor Heroes - T: 射鵰英雄傳 S: 射雕英雄传 (first published on Hong Kong Commercial Daily in 1957)<br />
* Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain - T: 雪山飛狐 S: 雪山飞狐 (first installment appeared on the first issue of Ming Pao in 1959)<br />
* The Return of the Condor Heroes - T: 神鵰俠侶 S: 神雕侠侣 (1959)<br />
* Other Tales of the Flying Fox - T: 飛狐外傳 S: 飞狐外传 (1960)<br />
* Swordswoman Riding West on White Horse T: 白馬嘯西風 S: 白马啸西风 (first published on Ming Pao in 1961)<br />
* Blade-dance of the Two Lovers T: 鴛鴦刀 S: 鸳鸯刀 (first published on Ming Pao in 1961)<br />
* Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre - T: 倚天屠龍記 S: 倚天屠龙记 (first published on Ming Pao in 1961)<br />
* A Deadly Secret - T: 連城訣 S: 连城诀 (first published on Southeast Asia Weekly 《東南亞周刊》in 1963)<br />
* Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils - T: 天龍八部 S: 天龙八部 (1963)<br />
* Ode to Gallantry - T: 俠客行 S: 侠客行 (1965)<br />
* The Smiling, Proud Wanderer - 笑傲江湖 (first published on Ming Pao in 1967)<br />
* The Deer and the Cauldron - T: 鹿鼎記 S: 鹿鼎记 (1969-1972)<br />
* Sword of the Yue Maiden - T: 越女劍 S: 越女剑 (1970)<br />
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