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Louis Cha, who wrote beloved Chinese martial arts novels as Jin Yong, dies

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    Cirrus
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    Jin Yong is a titan among Chinese literature circles. If you are Chinese, you know who he is. I don't think I'll be exaggerating when I say that his works will likely be read a hundred years from...

    Jin Yong is a titan among Chinese literature circles. If you are Chinese, you know who he is. I don't think I'll be exaggerating when I say that his works will likely be read a hundred years from now.

    He drafted his own epitaph while he was alive:“这里躺着一个人,在二十世纪、二十一世纪,他写过几十部武侠小说,这些小说为几亿人喜欢。” Roughly translates to: here lies a person, during the twentieth and twenty first century, he wrote some dozen wuxia novels, which were loved by a few hundred million people.

    老先生一路走好。

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    1. Catt
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      I can't even imagine when people will stop reading his work. It was all so genre defining.

      I can't even imagine when people will stop reading his work. It was all so genre defining.

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