(In the Book and Sword, Louis Cha revives the legend about...)
In the Book and Sword, Louis Cha revives the legend about the great eighteenth-century Manchu Emperor Qianlong which claims that he was in fact not a Manchu but a Han Chinese as a result of a "baby swap." The novel is panoramic in scope and includes the fantastical elements for which Cha is well-known: secret societies, kungfu masters, a lost desert city guarded by wolf packs, and the mysterious Fragrant Princess.
(The story happened in Wei and Jin Dynasties which was uns...)
The story happened in Wei and Jin Dynasties which was unstable, a batch of invaluable jewelry missed unaccountedly together with the treasure map. Eight hundred year later, the treasure map was turned into a gugyeol hided in the invincible Liancheng sword. The peerless Kongfu and invaluable treasures attrated dozens of people strived for.
Cha Leung-yung is a standout amongst the most persuasive present day Chinese-dialect wuxia authors ever, who co-founded the Hong Kong daily newspaper Ming Pao in 1959 and served as its first editor-in-chief. He is Hong Kong's most famous writer.
Background
Cha was born on February 6, 1924, in Haining, China as the second of six youngsters from the academic Zha group of Haining. He is purportedly a relative of Zha Jizuo (1601–1676), a researcher who lived in the late Ming line and early Qing dynasty.
His father, Zha Shuqing, was arrested and executed by the Communist government for allegedly being a counterrevolutionary during the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries in the early 1950s. Zha Shuqing was later posthumously declared innocent in the 1980s.
Cha has three brothers and two sisters. He is the second oldest among them. His brothers are Zha Liangjian, Zha Lianghao and Zha Liangyu. His sisters are Zha Liangxiu and Zha Liangxuan.
Education
Cha was an ardent peruser of writing from an early age, particularly wuxia and established fiction. He was once removed from his secondary school for transparently scrutinizing the Nationalist government as absolutist. He learned at Hangzhou High School in 1937 yet was released in 1941. He concentrated on in Jiaxing No. 1 High School and later was admitted to the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the Central School of Political Affairs in Chongqing Municipality (now National Chengchi University). Cha later dropped out of the school. He took the selection test and picked up admission to the Faculty of Law at Soochow University, where he majored in worldwide law with the expectation of seeking after a vocation in the remote administration. He later exchanged to the Faculty of Law at Dongwu University to major in International Law.
Cha is a privileged teacher at various universities which includes: Nankai University, Peking University, Soochow University, Zhejiang University, Hong Kong university, Huaqiao University, the University of British Columbia, National Tsing Hua University, and Sichuan University. And also a privileged specialist at National Chengchi University, Hong Kong University (Department of Social Science), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the Open University of Hong Kong, the University of British Columbia, Soka University and the University of Cambridge. He is also an Honorary Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford and Robinson College, Cambridge, and Wynflete Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.
In 1947, Cha joined Shanghai's daily paper organization Ta Kung Pao as a journalist. One year later, he was presented on the Hong Kong division as a copyeditor. He has lived in Hong Kong from that point forward. At the point when Cha was exchanged to Hsin Wan Pao as Deputy Editor, he met Chen Wentong, who composed his first wuxia novel under the nom de plume "Yusheng" in 1953. Chen and Cha turned out to be great companions and it was under the previous' impact that Cha started chip away at his initially serialized combative technique novel, The Book and the Sword, in 1955. In 1957, when he was still working on the wuxia serializations, he left his earlier job and started working as scriptwriter and executive scenarist at the Great Wall Movie Enterprises Ltd and Phoenix Film Company.
In 1959, Cha helped to establish the Hong Kong daily paper Ming Pao with his secondary school colleague Shen Baoxin. Cha served as its supervisor in-boss for quite a long time, composition both serialized books and publications, adding up to nearly 10,000 Chinese characters for every day. His books likewise earned him a vast readership. Cha finished his last wuxia novel in 1972, after which he authoritatively resigned from composing books, and spent the remaining years of that decade altering and modifying his scholarly works. The principal complete conclusive version of his works showed up in 1979. In 1980, Cha composed a postscript to Wu Gongzao's taiji great Wu Jia Taijiquan, in which he portrayed, impacts from as far back as Laozi and Zhuangzi on contemporary Chinese military arts.
By then, Cha's wuxia books had earned extraordinary ubiquity in Chinese-talking territories. The greater part of his books have following been adjusted into movies, TV arrangement and radio arrangement in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China. The vital characters in his books are so understood to people in general that they can be suggested effortlessly between every one of the three districts.
In later years in the 1970s, Cha was included in Hong Kong governmental issues. He was an individual from the Hong Kong Basic Law drafting panel, albeit, after the Tiananmen Square occurrence in 1989, he surrendered in challenge. He was likewise part of the Preparatory Committee set up in 1996 to administer Hong Kong's move by the Chinese government.
In 1993, Cha arranged for retirement from publication work and sold all his shares in Ming Pao.
His works demonstrate an incredible measure of admiration and endorsement for customary Chinese qualities, particularly Confucian goals, for example, the best possible relationship amongst ruler and subject, guardian and youngster, senior kin and more youthful kin, and, among expert and student, and among kindred disciples. In any case, he likewise addresses the legitimacy of these qualities despite an advanced society. Cha likewise puts an incredible measure of accentuation on customary values, for example, face and respect.
Politics
Chinese patriotism or patriotism is a solid topic in Cha's works. In the greater part of his works, Cha places accentuation on the possibility of self-determination and personality, and a hefty portion of his books are set in eras when China was involved or under the risk of occupation by non-Han Chinese people groups, for example, the Khitans, Jurchens, Mongols and Manchus. Be that as it may, Cha bit by bit developed Chinese patriotism into an inclusionist idea which envelops all present-day non-Han Chinese minorities. Cha communicates a wild reverence for constructive qualities of non-Han Chinese individuals by and by, for example, the Mongols and Manchus. In The Legend of the Condor Heroes, for instance, he throws Genghis Khan and his children as fit and smart military pioneers against the degenerate and ineffectual civil servants of the Han Chinese-drove Song line.
Views
Cha admired and respected Chinese qualities and tradition from the beginning. He is one of those powerful men in the country who had the guts to openly speak what he intended to share. Apart from that, he had also shared his views and outlook through his novels and similar work.
Personality
Cha is a well-mannered man who can always be seen with a powerful smile on his face. He is a calm person who has always let his words on paper speak.
Connections
Cha wedded three times in his life. His first spouse was Du Zhifen, whom he wedded in 1948 however separated later. In 1953, he wedded his second spouse, Zhu Mei, a daily paper columnist. They have four children: Zha Chuanxia, Zha Chuanti, Zha Chuanshi and Zha Chuanne. Cha separated Zhu in 1976 and wedded his third spouse, Lin Leyi, who is 29 years more youthful than him. In 1976, Zha Chuanxia, then 19 years of age, hanged himself after a squabble with his better half while learning at Columbia University.