![]() Li Dongxue wasn’t the most impressive performer in that wuxia movie directed by Lu Yang, but he caught my eye, so I was eager to see more of him. Book.It was the end of 2017 and I was just fresh out of watching Brotherhood of Blades. ![]() in multicolored pictorial dustjackets with classic watercolor scenes, color-coded by novel, and stiff paper wrappers text in Chinese, with many illustrations Paginations: Bi xue jian ?, 2 v. All these elements appear in the novels, and their placement firmly in the myth-shrouded past combine to produce a kind of 'cultural euphoria' in Chinese readers that cannot be found anywhere else in modern Chinese literature."-John Minford. "Kung fu, together with Chinese medicine, calligraphy, painting, playing Go and strumming the seven-stringed zither constitute the core of the Chinese cultural essence. Critic Simon Elegant has compared the power of the novels to a Chinese Three Musketeers, a Patrick O'Brian naval series and George MacDonald's Flashman combined. The immense popularity of his martial-arts novels continues unabated, having sold more than 1 billion copies, making him the most popular living Chinese author. ![]() Since 1966, he has expanded his publishing network considerably. In the meantime he started the Ming Pao Daily News with Shen Baoxin in 1959 acting as its director. ![]() and Phoenix Film Company in the late 1950s, focusing on play writing, and in 1955 he began to write swordplay fiction. At this time he also took on the job as scenarist-director at the Great Wall Movie Enterprises Ltd. He was an English translator at Ta Kung Pao newspaper and subsequently moved to Hong Kong with the newspaper and worked as a copy editor at Ta Kung Pao and Hsin Wan Pao newspapers. He was admitted to the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Chunking Central University and then transferred to the Faculty of Law of Dongwu University majoring in International Law. 1st ed Di 1 ban ?1? 26 volumes AS NEW A collection of 9 of the 15 novels from the Collected Works edition of Jin Yong's world-famous martial arts fiction, all of which have been used as the bases of films many times over includes Sword Stained with Royal Blood (1956), The Return of the Eagle Heroes (1959), Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain (1959), The Young Flying Fox (1960), Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre (1961), Requiem of Ling Sing (1963), Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (1963), Way of the Heroes (1965), Deer and the Cauldron (1969) Jin Yong was born in Hangzhou, a native of Haining, Zhejiang province.
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