1 Secondary School and graduated in 1943. He continued his high school education at Quzhou No. 1 Middle School in 1937 but was expelled in 1941.
He was once expelled from his high school for openly criticising the Nationalist government as autocratic. Ĭha was an avid reader of literature from an early age, especially wuxia and classical fiction. Zha Shuqing was later posthumously declared innocent in the 1980s. His father, Zha Shuqing ( 查樞卿), was arrested and executed by the Communist government for allegedly being a counterrevolutionary during the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries in the early 1950s. 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. He hailed from the scholarly Zha clan of Haining ( 海寧查氏), whose members included notable literati of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties such as Zha Jizuo (1601–1676), Zha Shenxing ( 查慎行 1650–1727) and Zha Siting ( 查嗣庭 died 1727). Early life Ĭha was born Zha Liangyong in Haining, Zhejiang in Republican China, the second of seven children. The asteroid 10930 Jinyong (1998 CR 2) is named after him. He has many fans outside of Chinese-speaking areas, as a result of the numerous adaptations of his works into films, television series, comics and video games. His works have been translated into many languages including English, French, Catalan, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese, Malay and Indonesian. His works have the unusual ability to transcend geographical and ideological barriers separating Chinese communities of the world, achieving a greater success than any other contemporary Hong Kong writer. According to The Oxford Guide to Contemporary World Literature, Jin Yong's novels are considered to be of very high quality and are able to appeal to both highbrow and lowbrow tastes. By the time of his death he was the best-selling Chinese author, and over 100 million copies of his works have been sold worldwide (not including an unknown number of pirated copies). His 15 works written between 19 earned him a reputation as one of the greatest and most popular wuxia writers ever. His wuxia novels have a widespread following in Chinese communities worldwide.
He was Hong Kong's most famous writer, and is named along with Gu Long and Liang Yusheng as the "Three Legs of the Tripod of Wuxia". Louis Cha Leung-yung GBM OBE ( Chinese: 查良鏞 6 February 1924 – 30 October 2018), better known by his pen name Jin Yong ( Chinese: 金庸), was a Chinese wuxia (" martial arts and chivalry") novelist and essayist who co-founded the Hong Kong daily newspaper Ming Pao in 1959 and served as its first editor-in-chief.
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