His novels also earned him a large readership. Cha served as its editor-in-chief for years, writing both serialised novels and editorials, amounting to some 10,000 Chinese characters per day. In 1959, Cha co-founded the Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao with his high school classmate Shen Baoxin ( 沈寶新).
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In 1957, while still working on wuxia serialisations, he quit his previous job and worked as a scenarist-director and scriptwriter at Great Wall Movie Enterprises Ltd and Phoenix Film Company. Chen and Cha became good friends and it was under the former's influence that Cha began work on his first serialised martial arts novel, The Book and the Sword, in 1955. When Cha was transferred to New Evening Post (of British Hong Kong) as Deputy Editor, he met Chen Wentong, who wrote his first wuxia novel under the pseudonym " Liang Yusheng" in 1953. He moved to Hong Kong in 1948 to work for the paper’s office in the city. To help support his studies, he began work in 1947 as a journalist and translator for the Ta Kung Pao newspaper in Shanghai. In 2009, Cha applied for another doctorate in Chinese literature at Peking University, which he earned in 2013. In 2005, Cha applied at Cambridge University for a doctorate in Asian Studies, which he obtained in 2010. He took the entrance exam and gained admission to the Faculty of Law at Soochow University, where he majored in international law with the intention of pursuing a career in the foreign service. Education Ĭha was admitted to the Department of Foreign Languages at the Central University of Political Affairs in Chongqing.
1 Secondary School and graduated in 1943. He continued his high school education at Quzhou No. 1 Middle School in 1937 but was expelled in 1941. He was once expelled from his high school for openly criticising the Nationalist government as autocratic. Ĭha was an avid reader of literature from an early age, especially wuxia and classical fiction. Zha Shuqing was later posthumously declared innocent in the 1980s. His father, Zha Shuqing ( 查樞卿), was arrested and executed by the Communist government for allegedly being a counterrevolutionary during the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries in the early 1950s. His grandfather, Zha Wenqing ( 查文清), obtained the position of a tong jinshi chushen (third class graduate) in the imperial examination during the Qing dynasty. He hailed from the scholarly Zha clan of Haining ( 海寧查氏), whose members included notable literati of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties such as Zha Jizuo (1601–1676), Zha Shenxing ( 查慎行 1650–1727) and Zha Siting ( 查嗣庭 died 1727). Early life Ĭha was born Zha Liangyong in Haining, Zhejiang in Republican China, the second of seven children. The asteroid 10930 Jinyong (1998 CR 2) is named after him. He has many fans outside of Chinese-speaking areas, as a result of the numerous adaptations of his works into films, television series, comics and video games. His works have been translated into many languages including English, French, Catalan, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese, Malay and Indonesian. His works have the unusual ability to transcend geographical and ideological barriers separating Chinese communities of the world, achieving a greater success than any other contemporary Hong Kong writer. According to The Oxford Guide to Contemporary World Literature, Jin Yong's novels are considered to be of very high quality and are able to appeal to both highbrow and lowbrow tastes. By the time of his death he was the best-selling Chinese author, and over 100 million copies of his works have been sold worldwide (not including an unknown number of pirated copies). His 15 works written between 19 earned him a reputation as one of the greatest and most popular wuxia writers ever. His wuxia novels have a widespread following in Chinese communities worldwide. He was Hong Kong's most famous writer, and is named along with Gu Long and Liang Yusheng as the "Three Legs of the Tripod of Wuxia".
Louis Cha Leung-yung GBM OBE ( Chinese: 查良鏞 6 February 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 editor-in-chief.
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