Louis Cha
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The Honourable Dr. Louis Cha GBM OBE |
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Cha in July 2007
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6 February 1924 Haining, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China |
| Pen name | Jin Yong |
| Occupation | Novelist, essayist |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Alma mater |
Soochow University University of Cambridge Peking University |
| Period | 1955–1972 |
| Genre | Wuxia |
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| Children | two sons and two daughters (three living) |
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| Website | |
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| Zha Liangyong (birth name) | |||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 查良鏞 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 查良镛 | ||||||||||||
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| Jin Yong (pen name) | |||||||||||||
| Chinese | 金庸 | ||||||||||||
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| Vietnamese name | |||||||||||||
| Vietnamese | Tra Lương Dung / Kim Dung | ||||||||||||
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| Thai | จาเลี้ยงย้ง / กิมย้ง | ||||||||||||
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| Hangul | 사량용 / 김용 | ||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Zhā Liángyōng |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Chàh Lèuhng Yùhng |
| Jyutping | Caa4 Loeng4 Jung4 |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Jīn Yōng |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Gām yùhng |
| Jyutping | Gam1 Jung4 |
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| Revised Romanization | Sa Ryangyong / Gim Yong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sa Ryangyong / Kim Yong |
Louis Cha Leung-yung, GBM, OBE (born 6 February 1924), better known by his pen name Jin Yong, is a Chinese novelist and essayist based in Hong Kong. Having co-founded the Hong Kong daily Ming Pao in 1959, he was the newspaper'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 Hong Kong, China, 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 numbers 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, comics and video games.
Asteroid 10930 Jinyong (1998 CR2) is named after him.
Cha was named along with Gu Long and Liang Yusheng as the "Three Legs of the Tripod of Wuxia".
Cha was born in Haining City, Zhejiang Province in Republican China as the second of six children from the scholarly Zha family of Haining (海寧查氏). His ancestral home, however, was in Wuyuan County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province. He is purportedly a descendant of Zha Jizuo (1601–1676), a scholar who lived in the late Ming dynasty and early Qing dynasty. 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. His father, Zha Shuqing (查樞卿), was accused of being a counterrevolutionary, and was arrested and executed by the Communist government during the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries in the early 1950s.
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