The most famous writer of wuxia novels is undoubtedly JinYong, whose dozen of novels have become the all-time bestsellers of Chinese novels around the world, and have inspired many television series and films.
JinYong, real name Louis Cha Liang Yong, was born in 1924 in Zhejian, China.
The story is about Wu Fei's mission to avenge his parents, but JinYong uses Fei to bring out his parents' history and the reason they died.
JinYong is a pseudonym or pen name that he chose to write under.
The reason he chose this specific moniker is because when you combine the two Chinese characters Jin and Yong, you get the last character of his real name.
A nice thing to note about JinYong is that he is very scholarly and his type of wuxia fiction can also be labelled as historical fiction.
One of Wuyi top five tea, Shui Jin Gui, which means "Golden Turtle" is strong and rich tea with a very slight hint of fruity aroma.
According to Chinese legends, Shui Jin Gui tea plant is a transmigration of a turtle god.
Upon seeing this, the turtle god realised that he would be better appreciated as a tea plant and thus he gave up his immortality to become the Shui Jin Gui tea plant.
JinYong represents the martial arts in this last aspect as inextricably linked with other practices and principles of Chinese cultural tradition; and a crucial aspect of this linkage is the role of texts and textuality in education, both martial and otherwise.
JinYong is depicted as an upright editor standing up to leftist radicals on the mainland despite a price on his head for such opposition.
JinYong uses his publications to promote and market his novels, but also seems to consciously create a reading community through discussion of the works in forums such as direct exchanges with his readers in a JinYong Mailbox.
JinYong, originally named Louis Cha, was born in Haining County (near Hangzhou) in 1924.
Due to his excellent work, JinYong was awarded the title of OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 1981.
JinYong is also the most famous writer of martial arts novels in China, and dozens of his novels have become all-time bestsellers, with some of them being translated into English, Japanese, French, Malaysian, and Korean and so on.
JinYong is hailed as the most influential martial arts novelist in twentieth-century Chinese literary history.
His novels are regarded by readers and critics as “the common language of Chinese around the world” because of their international circulation and various adaptations (film, television serials, comic books, video games).
The significance of this book lies in its interpretation of JinYong’s novels through the larger lens of twentieth-century Chinese literature.
JinYong is alive or not is not decisive for building a statue for him," said a local official surnamed Yao, adding "As long as he can contribute a lot to our tourism industry by drawing more visitors here he deserves a stature."
Over the years, visitors to the small island have increased substantially as the craze for JinYong's martial art novels have been re-ignited.
JinYong, born in Zhejiang in East China, is the world's biggest-selling author of martial arts novels, having sold almost 300 million copies of his works.
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Besides, he is also a man of principles in the first part of the trilogy, but somehow JinYong decided to kill him off in the second part just to make the story more platable.
JinYong -wrote- the story and basically, we are discussing about his ideas and his characters.
As far as I know, JinYong's a pretty mild person and he wouldn't voice his disappointment if the adaptation is okay and the scriptwriter does not change the basic story.
JinYong originally published his stories for his newspaper publication, Ming Pao, to rev up readship for the paper.
JinYong noted at the end of Heavenly Sword Dragon Saber that Xiao Chao was his favorite character for Zhang Wu Ji.
Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils was partially written by JinYong's friend who hated the character of Ah Zhi so much that he made her blind halfway in the novel.
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Heading this revival were the works of JinYong, who is widely credited with elevating the genre from the ghetto of formula fiction to new heights of literary accomplishment.
Interwoven with analyses of the novels are explorations of JinYong’s newspaper and publishing empire; the effects of his rising prominence as a journalist, entrepreneur, and political and cultural spokesperson on his fiction; and how his motivations and enterprises intersected with those of readers and critics in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China.
The JinYong chapters suggest that the genre has a long history of struggling to escape from itself and retire from the dog eat dog life in Jiang-Hu.
JinYong / Characters / Wuxiapedia - The comprehensive wuxia knowledge base
This section lists characters created by the author JinYong.
The list of all JinYong's characters in alphabetical order.
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I have been planning to do such an article eversince the series ended its run here in Malaysia but it wasn't until a recent heated debate in the JinYong DF inspired me to write something like this to refute certain claims.
Why are JinYong novels increasingly being used as testers or guinea pigs for new actors?
All JinYong's works belong to Mr Louis Cha and I'm not making any profit out of those articles I write in my free time.
The story ends with a fight between Fox, the hero of the story, and his sworn enemy, but the result of the fight is untold, left to the imagination and creative power of individual readers.
JinYong is one of the best-known Chinese writers of this generation.
Today I was watching Oprah show, and she said "What have you done today, so make you feel proud", I've been very down for last one month, got the flu, headache and homesick.
If you were a teardrop, In my eye, For fear of losing you, I would never cry.
I didnt know anybody when I came to ireland, no friends, no family in ireland, and I didnt have much English, just came to ireland with 4 shirt, two pairs of jeans and My Dreams.
Hey everybody, this is Amanda, and you can read translated JinYong novels here!!
And I followed LQ's idea in the JinYong forum and changed the FAQ section a little bit.
Questions or Comments, ask or comment in the JinYong Forum or just send me an email at amandajkwong@hotmail.com
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Leon Lai-Michelle Lee-Cheung Man -Li Kar Yang *'/2 A Johnny Mak-produced adaptation of JinYong's Adventures of Young Flying Fox sounds promising.
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