Yong Jin

金庸

Louis Cha, known with his pen name Jin Yong is one of the most influential modern Chinese-language novelists. Co-founder of the Hong Kong daily Ming Pao, which he started in 1959, he was the paper's first editor-in-chief and held this position until 1993, when he retired. He has also written and directed two films. He was also 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". Cha's fiction, which are of the Wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry"? genre, has a widespread following in Chinese-speaking…