For other uses, see The Book and the Sword (disambiguation).
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1955–1956 wuxia novel by Jin Yong
The Book and the Sword
Chapter 10 of The Book and the Sword, from page 6 of 5 August 1955 issue of the Hong Kong newspaper New Evening Post.
Author
Jin Yong
Original title
書劍恩仇錄
Translator
Graham Earnshaw
Language
Chinese
Genre
Wuxia, historical fiction
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
8 February 1955
Publication place
Hong Kong
Published in English
2005
Media type
Print, serialised in The New Evening Post
ISBN
978-0-19-590727-8
Preceded by
A Deadly Secret
Followed by
The Young Flying Fox
The Book and the Sword
Traditional Chinese
書劍恩仇錄
Simplified Chinese
书剑恩仇录
Literal meaning
Chronicles of the Book and the Sword: Gratitude and Vengeance
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Shū Jiàn Ēn Chóu Lù
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping
Syu1 Gim3 Jan1 Sau4 Luk6
The Book and the Sword is a wuxia novel by Jin Yong (Louis Cha). First serialised between 8 February 1955 and 5 September 1956[1] in the Hong Kong newspaper The New Evening Post, it is also Jin Yong's debut novel.
Set in 18th-century China during the Manchu-led Qing dynasty, the novel follows the quest of the Red Flower Society, a secret society aiming to overthrow the Qing government, and their entanglements with a Uyghur tribe in southern Xinjiang. The "book" in the title refers to a Quran that was stolen from the tribe while the "sword" refers to a sword given to the protagonist, Chen Jialuo, by his first romantic interest, Huoqingtong. Historical figures such as the Qianlong Emperor, Zhaohui, Heshen, Zheng Banqiao and Fuk'anggan also make appearances or are mentioned by name in the novel. One of the protagonists, Princess Fragrance, is loosely based on the Fragrant Concubine.
Alternative English titles of the novel include Book and Sword: Gratitude and Revenge and The Romance of the Book and Sword.
^The date conforms to the data published in Chen Zhenhui (陳鎮輝), Wuxia Xiaoshuo Xiaoyao Tan (武俠小說逍遙談), 2000, Huizhi Publishing Company (匯智出版有限公司), p. 56.
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