About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Jin Yong, Stephen Chow, Chip Tsao, Arthur Wong, Philip Chan, Jimmy Lai, Xi Xi, Josephine Siao, Dayo Wong, Nury Vittachi, Kai Ho, Ambrose King, Pang Ho-cheung, Liang Yusheng, Xu Xi, Chen Yu-hui, Larry Feign, Ng Ming Yam, Dan Schreiber, Elizabeth Wong, Sima Ling, Wong Tin-lam, Liu Yichang, Yi Shu, Richard Lam, David Tang, Wong Kwok-pun, Huang Yi, Kearen Pang, Little Astrology Prince, Bat Wah Lau, Leung Long Chau, Paul Lin, Stewart Sloan, Lilian Lee, Albert Tam, Quenby Fung, Rebecca Bradley, Au Lok Man, Paul McGuire, Cheang Pou-soi. Excerpt: Louis Cha, GBM, OBE (born 6 February 1924), better known by his pen name Jin Yong, is a modern Chinese-language novelist. Co-founder of the Hong Kong daily Ming Pao, which he started in 1959, he was the paper's first editor-in-chief. Cha's fiction, which is of the wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") genre, has a widespread following in Chinese-speaking areas, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the United States. His 15 works written between 1955 and 1972 earned him a reputation as one of the finest wuxia writers ever. He is currently the best-selling Chinese author alive; over 100 million copies of his works have been sold worldwide (not including unknown number of bootleg copies). Cha's works have been translated into English, French, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese, Malay and Indonesian. He has many fans abroad as well, owing to the numerous adaptations of his works into films, television series, manhua (comics) and video games. Asteroid 10930 Jinyong (1998 CR2) is named after him. A native of Haining City, Zhejiang, China, with ancestry from Wuyuan, a county of Shangrao, Jiangxi, Cha is the second of seven children from an illustrious family of scholars; his grandfather obtained a jinshi degree in the imperial examination. Cha was an avi...
