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The Book and the Sword (The Book and The Sword)
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 pa...more
Hardcover, 511 pages
Published
January 20th 2005
by Oxford University Press
(first published 1955)
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Excellent kungfu, Mr. Cha!
Louis Cha nimmt den Leser in diesem "Martial Arts"-Roman auf eine weite Reise durch das China der Qing-Dynastie. Von den Wüsten Xinjiangs zu den Küstenregionen Südchinas begleitet der Leser die Hauptprotagonisten, Mitglieder einer Geheimgesellschaft, auf ihrem Versuch, China den Manchu zu entreißen und den Chinesen wieder zurückzugeben.
Sehr unterhaltsam, durchgängig sehr lesbar und spannend wird hier so ziemlich alles verarbeitet, was diese Region zu bieten hat: Geheim...more
Louis Cha nimmt den Leser in diesem "Martial Arts"-Roman auf eine weite Reise durch das China der Qing-Dynastie. Von den Wüsten Xinjiangs zu den Küstenregionen Südchinas begleitet der Leser die Hauptprotagonisten, Mitglieder einer Geheimgesellschaft, auf ihrem Versuch, China den Manchu zu entreißen und den Chinesen wieder zurückzugeben.
Sehr unterhaltsam, durchgängig sehr lesbar und spannend wird hier so ziemlich alles verarbeitet, was diese Region zu bieten hat: Geheim...more
Jin Yong's first wuxia novel is set in the reign of the Qian Long Emperor, when the Qing dynasty was expanding its realm through the Uighur lands in China's far west. The main protagonist, Chen Jialuo, is the young helmsman of the Red Flower Society, a secret organization dedicated to the restoration of Han Chinese sovereignty, which they wish to accomplish through the secret tie between their helmsman and the Emperor. The plot is woven around two stories that date from this period in Chinese hi...more
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I don’t read Chinese, so I had to actively search for his books in translation. Jin Yong (or Louis Cha, as he is sometimes called) is credited with writing or inspiring over a dozen of the HKTVB soaps and remakes I’ve watched from pre-adolescence on. As I read The Book and The Sword, storylines from seemingly unrelated movies and shows became familiar, so whether I’m right or wrong to do so I am going to credit him with inspiring those as well.
The Book and The Sword is Yong’s first novel and (I...more
The Book and The Sword is Yong’s first novel and (I...more
Louis Cha's (Jinyong's) first novel, which was originally serialized and then collected into novel form. It's an excellent read by one of the most famous authors in Hong Kong, but this book is made even more special because it's one of the few (maybe only) excellent translations that I've ever found of Louis Cha's work. The translation was done by British journalist Graham Earnshaw, and so the story works quite well in English.
đọc xong chỉ nhớ mỗi Dư Ngư Đồng
nhớ vậy thôi chứ mình cũng ghétttt thằnggg chảaa
à đúng rồi, đọc xong ghét đàn ông :)) =))
nhớ vậy thôi chứ mình cũng ghétttt thằnggg chảaa
à đúng rồi, đọc xong ghét đàn ông :)) =))
This book is officially one of my favorites now! Actually, the one I read was a Chinese book, but it had an English title too.
Classic martial arts fantasy novel was a huge influence on my latest novel Hunting the Moon Tribe. My favorite Wuxia novel.
On Loan from Wonderful Sandybanks! Thank you ever so much!!
Superlatives fail in rendering a review of this book. The Book and The Sword is: super, fantastic, adventure-filled, breathtaking, suspenseful, and brilliant.
P.S. There is even a levitating character! Imagine that - it took my breath away!
Superlatives fail in rendering a review of this book. The Book and The Sword is: super, fantastic, adventure-filled, breathtaking, suspenseful, and brilliant.
P.S. There is even a levitating character! Imagine that - it took my breath away!
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Ắt hẳn đây là Thư kiếm ân cừu lục
What I read was the Chinese edition.
This is one of the few books by Jinyong that's available in English (legit). If you're not used to the Chinese names it can get confusing, and the serialized structure is another thing to get used to. But the story is very exciting and very touching in a way that Western genre novels are often not.
An entertaining wuxia novel.
Louis Cha's first book, very poignant depiction of the Ching dynasty and the rumor that one emperor, Qian Long, was actually of Han and not Manchu descent. Very very good story about friendship, brotherhood and the red flower society.
this book is lots of fun and everybody should read it (as long as you don't hate chinese people or action or muslims)
Incredible.
Adventurous.
Beautiful.
Exciting.
Heroic.
Frightening.
Exotic.
Poetic.
Adventurous.
Beautiful.
Exciting.
Heroic.
Frightening.
Exotic.
Poetic.
Apr 18, 2008
Angie
marked it as to-read
Minghua recommended this book to me. I'm hoping the translation is good.
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Graham
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Louis Cha, GBM, OBE (born 6 February 1924), better known by his pen name Jin Yong (金庸, sometimes read and/or written as "Chin Yung"), 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, in...more
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Cha's fiction, which is of the wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") genre, has a widespread following in Chinese-speaking areas, in...more
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