Late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping (left) meets Louis Cha and members of his family during their visit to Beijing in 1983. (Photo/China News Service)
Tributes pour in for renowned HK martial arts novelist, best-selling author and co-founder of Ming Pao
Louis Cha, better known as writer Jin Yong poses with cast members of The Romance of the Condor Heroes. From left: Patrick Tse Yin Louis Cha, Nam Hung. Leung So-kam. (Photo provided to China Daily)
Louis Cha won fame as a martial arts novelist. The stories and characters he created had a major impact on Hong Kong popular culture — cinema, TV series, radio drama, stage drama and video games. (Photo provided to China Daily)
The 1965 film The Sword and the Saber was based on Cha's eponymous wuxia novel. (Photo provided to China Daily)
The first exhibition gallery in Hong Kong to be themed on renowned writer Louis Cha was unveiled on Feb. 28, 2017, at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum. To mark the gallery's opening, the museum held a special exhibition entitled "Exhibition on Paintings adapted from Jin Yong's Novels" in Function Place on the first floor from March 1 to 27 last year to showcase original novel illustrations and Cha's martial arts world as seen in the works of various artists. (Photo provided to China Daily)
The revised manuscript of the new edition of The Demi-Gods and the Semi-Devils. (Photo provided to China Daily)
