Louie Cha, aka 'Ordinary Gold', started to write his wuxia scripts while working in PAP Singapore. If not for the environment provided by Ah Gong and the PAP Old Guard, we might never have his wuxia novels today. I'll like to take this opportunity to thank PAP on every samsters' behalf for helping Mr. Ordinary Gold to produce his great novels.
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In The Legendary Swordsman, century-old wine from Turpan, Xinjiang, is shared, spilled and used for an impromptu work of calligraphy when swordsman Linghu Chong visits the four cultured squires of Plum Manor and challenges them to duels.
The charming chapter, originally titled Plum Manor, Solitary Hill, unfolds in a house near West Lake in Hangzhou.
And it was conjured up by Louis Cha in, of all places, Singapore in 1967.
That year, the Hong Kong novelist and founding editor of Ming Pao Daily News set up Shin Min Daily News here with Axe Brand Universal Oil founder Leung Yun Chee. About two months after Shin Min was launched, leftist riots broke out in Hong Kong in May.
Cha, who received death threats from the leftists, stayed in Singapore for one and a half months for his safety, said Ming Pao.
Television was not yet prevalent at the time, and Cha, alias Jin Yong, built his newspapers around fiction supplements that serialised his sought-after wuxia novels.
During his sojourn in Singapore, he went to the Shin Min office - at 7 Davidson Road then - past 2pm every day to write about 1,200 words of his latest novel, The Legendary Swordsman, journalist Toh Lam Huat told Ming Pao in 2016.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/s...-part-of-the-legendary-swordsman-in-singapore