Many of the late martial arts novelist Jin Yong's famous characters have been star-making roles for the actors and actresses who played them. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Renowned Hong Kong martial arts novelist Louis Cha 'Jin Yong' passed away on Tuesday at the age of 94. Since the 1950s, ... Linghu Chong as his ideal hero. In the story, ...

A Hero Born: Legends of the Condor Heroes – Huang Rong Hong Kong actresses Michelle Yim (left), Barbara Yung and Athena Chu played Huang Rong in the TV series in 1976, 1983 and 1994 respectively.

Jin Yong, trans. from the Chinese by Anna Holmwood. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-22060-8 An unrefined translation muddles this posthumous U.S. debut for renowned wuxia author Jin ...

File photo of Louis Cha, better known by his pen name Jin Yong. [Photo provided To China Daily] A modern Chinese literary giant left us on Tuesday. Louis Cha Leung-yung, better known by his pen ...

A Hero Born by Jin Hong is the first part of a series called the Legends of the Condor Heroes. The book was originally written in Chinese and published in the late 1950's. This version was ...

Translator Anna Holmwood is the hero of Jin Yong’s wuxia. By . Feng Yu. Managing editor of Global Times Shanghai Newsroom. Feng Yu. Published: Mar 04, 2018 07:03 PM.

LONDON, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- A Hero Born, the first volume of famous Chinese martial arts novelist Jin Yong's Legends of the Condor Heroes, was on Thursday published in English for the first time.

With the rich worldbuilding, character cast, and narrative depth of Jin Yong's works, adapting any of them for the big screen has always, and will remain, a Herculean task.

Jin Yong's wildly popular historical series Legends of the Condor Heroes has been adapted many times for Chinese TV, movies and comics, and now the first volume has been translated into English.

Jin Yong is the pen name of Louis Cha, 93, who now lives in Hong Kong. He is one of the best-selling Chinese authors alive with over 300 million copies of his works sold in the Chinese-speaking world.