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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.
Oct 30, 2018 · Louis Cha, GBM, OBE (born 6 February 1924), better known by his pen name Jin Yong (金庸, sometimes read and/or written as "Chin Yung"), is a modern Chinese-language novelist.
Oct 31, 2018 · Novelist Jin Yong — the pen name for writer and journalist Louis Cha — has died, triggering tributes and mourning from his fans. Here, a customer reads a book at a memorial section at a ...
Oct 31, 2018 · Mr Cha is a legend in the Chinese literary world. 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...
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.
Oct 31, 2018 · Today we mourn the passing of Jin Yong (Louis Cha) who was well loved for his wuxia novels, among his many other accomplishments. What made Jin Yong such a legend? As Ann Huss and Jianmei noted in The Jin Yong Phenomenon, "Jin Yong writes in what has been referred to by readers and critics as….
