Jin Yong and the Wuxia genre. Laszlo chats with author Alice Poon

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

I had the great pleasure to interview fellow Earnshaw Books author, Alice Poon recently. The occasion was the official release date of her new book, "The Earthly Blaze" (links below). We first discussed the life and work of Zha Liangyong, also known as Louis Cha. But he is more widely known by his pen name, Jin Yong, whose novels have been read and enjoyed by countless numbers of readers around the world. While I had Alice in the studio I also got her to talk about the greater Wuxia 武侠 genre of Chinese fiction and how it has been received in popular culture. The Earthly Blaze Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/Earthly-Blaze-Sword-Maiden-Moon/dp/9888843680/ The Earthly Blaze BN Link: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-earthly-blaze-alice-poon/1144936000 The Earthly Blaze at Earnshaw Books: https://earnshawbooks.com/product/the-earthly-blaze/ Alice's Blog: https://alicewaihanpoon.blogspot.com/ A nice recommended resource for further reading about Jin Yong and Wuxia: https://wuxiasociety.com/jin-yong-novels/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.0	Hey everyone, Lhasa Montgomery here.
0:22.0	Thanks for tuning in to the China History Podcast.
0:25.0	Today, we're going to explore another in a long line of topics
0:29.0	that throughout the years has been requested by so many listeners on every continent and that is the life of
0:36.2	Jin-Yung and the Wushya genre of Chinese fiction of which he was, I feel safe in saying this, the brightest star in that constellation of great
0:46.1	writers.
0:47.8	The best known by his ped name, Jin-Yung.
0:50.6	He was born Jaal-Liang-Yung on March 10th, 1924 in Heining, not far from the rich literary and scholarly
0:58.9	cities of Hangzhou and Shaoh-Singh.
1:01.7	He was descended from a family of celebrated scholars who went all the way back to the Ming Dynasty.
1:07.0	His father was a scholar in intellectual who later got caught up in one of Mao's early purges and was labeled a counter-revolutionary and executed in the early 1950s and, like many others, was later exonerated of all wrongdoing during the Dung era.
1:24.3	In the Western press, J.
1:26.7	Jiang Yung was known as Louis Cha, founder of the Ming Ba'au newspaper, who also wrote 15 novels between 1955 and 1972.
1:37.0	Over a hundred million Jinion books have been sold,
1:41.0	and that number doesn't include the pirated versions of his work that's
1:44.1	spread out all over the world and are probably two to three times that number if not greater.
1:50.0	And with me today to discuss the life and writings of Jin-Yung, I am honored to have author Alice
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