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Louis Cha Leung-yung (Zha Liangyong), GBM, OBE (born 6 February 1924), better known by his pen name Jin Yong, is a modern Chinese-language novelist. Having co-founded the Hong Kong daily ''Ming Pao'' in 1959, he was the paper'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〔(Compassionate Light in Asia A Dialogue )〕 (not including unknown numbers of bootleg copies).〔 () CCTV. 24 June 2004. Retrieved 4 August 2006.〕 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, manhua (comics) and video games. Asteroid 10930 Jinyong (1998 CR2) is named after him.〔(Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (10001)-(15000) ) IAU: Minor Planet Center 13 July 2006. Retrieved 4 August 2006.〕 Cha was named along with Xiong Yaohua and Liang Yusheng as the "Three Legs of the Tripod of Wuxia". ==Life== Born in Haining City, Zhejiang Province, China, with ancestry from Wuyuan, a county of Shangrao, Jiangxi Province, Cha is the second of seven children from an illustrious family of scholars; his grandfather obtained a ''jinshi'' degree in the imperial examination. He is purportedly a descendant of Zha Jizuo (1601–1676), a scholar who lived in the late Ming dynasty and early Qing dynasty. Cha was an avid reader of literature from an early age, especially wuxia and classical fiction. He was once expelled from his high school for openly criticising the Nationalist government as autocratic. He studied at Hangzhou High School in 1937 but was dismissed in 1941. He studied 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.〔(金庸生平簡表 - 金庸客棧－金庸小傳 )〕 Cha later was dropped out by the school. He took the entrance exam and got admission to the Faculty of Law at Soochow University majoring in international law, with the intention of working as a foreign relations official after all. In 1947, Cha joined Shanghai's newspaper agency ''Ta Kung Pao'' as a journalist. One year later, he was posted to the Hong Kong division as a copyeditor. He has resided in Hong Kong ever since. When Cha was transferred to ''Hsin Wan Pao'' as Deputy Editor, he met Chen Wentong, who in 1953 wrote his first wuxia novel under the pseudonym "Liang Yusheng". Chen and Cha became good friends and it was under the former's influence that Cha began work on his first serialised martial arts novel, ''The Book and the Sword'', in 1955. In 1957, while still working on wuxia serialisations, he quit his previous job and worked as a scenarist-director and scriptwriter at the Great Wall Movie Enterprises Ltd and Phoenix Film Company. In 1959, together with fellow high-school mate Shen Baoxin (沈寶新), Cha founded the Hong Kong newspaper ''Ming Pao''. Cha served as its editor-in-chief for years, writing both serialised novels and editorials, amounting to some 10,000 characters per day. His novels also earned him a large readership. Cha completed his last wuxia novel in 1972, after which he officially retired from writing, and spent the remaining years of that decade editing and revising his literary works instead. The first complete definitive edition of his works appeared in 1979. In 1980, Cha wrote a postscript to Wu Gongzao's t'ai chi classic ''Wu Jia Taijiquan'', in which he described influences from as far back as Laozi and Zhuangzi on contemporary Chinese martial arts. By then, Cha's wuxia novels had earned great popularity in Chinese-speaking areas. All of his novels have since been adapted into films, television series and radio series in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China. The important characters in his novels are so well known to the public that they can be alluded to with ease between all three regions. In later years in the 1970s, Cha was involved in Hong Kong politics. He was a member of the Hong Kong Basic Law drafting committee, although, after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, he resigned in protest. He was also part of the Preparatory Committee set up in 1996 to supervise Hong Kong's transition by the Chinese government.〔(Novelist, newspaper founder and sage ) Asiaweek. 24 September 1999. Retrieved 22 November 2007.〕 In 1993, Cha prepared for retirement from editorial work, selling all his shares in ''Ming Pao''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jin Yong」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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