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Name : Cha Leung Yung, Louis Cha
Pen Name : Jin Yong
Religion : Buddhism
Birthday : Feb 6th, 1924
Louis Leung-yung Cha, with his pen name as Jin Yong and born in Hangzhou, he is native of Haining, Zhejiang province. He studied at Zhejiang Province Jiaxing High School (presently Jiaxing First High School) after graduation from primary school. Upon graduation from high school, he was admitted to the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Chunking Central University and then transferred to the Faculty of Law of Dongwu University majoring in International Law.
He successfully obtained the job as English translator at Ta Kung Pao with the best score in English after graduation from college. He move to Hong Kong with the newspaper and worked as copy editor at Ta Kung Pao and Hsin Wan Pao. He took on the job as scenarist-director at the Great Wall Movie Enterprises Ltd. and Phoenix Film Co. in the late 1950s, focusing on play writing and Enchoulu movie criticism. He began to write swordsman fictions in 1955 and published Shujian Enchoulu, Bixuejian, Xueshan Feihu and Shediao Yingxiongzhuan. He started the business of Ming Pao Daily News with Shen Baoxin in 1959 and acted as director. Since 1966, he also launched Ming Pao Monthly, Ming Pao Weekly and Ming Pao Evening News. He established the Book Publishing House later.
He had worked as executive member of the Basic Law Drafting Committee and Consultative Committee of the Hong Kong SAR since 1985 and resigned on May 20, 1989. He listed Ming Pao Group Ltd. on stock market in 1991 and acted as Chairman of Board of Directors. He sold Ming Pao Group Ltd. to Yu Pinhai in February 1993 and retired. He had served as Honorary President of Ming Pao Enter- prises Co. Ltd., panel member of Legal Reform Committee, the Association of International Press and academician of Modern China Research Centre of the British Oxford University. He was appointed member of the Preparatory Committee of the Hong Kong SAR in December 1995.
He was awarded the title of OBE in 1981. He was awarded honorary doctorate of Hong Kong University in 1986 and invited to work as honorary professor of the Faculty of Chinese Language and Literature of Hong Kong University in 1989. He was awarded "honorary citizen of Jiaxing City" in 1994 and engaged as honorary professor of Beijing University in October of that year. In November 1996, he was appointed honorary professor of Zhejiang University and senior advisor of the People's government of Jiaxing City.
His novels include Shendiao Xialu, Feihu Waizhuan, Xiao'ao Jianghu, Tianlong Babu and Luding Ji. He has published some other writings like On Yuan Chonghuan and Genghis Khan and His Family. He is also devoted to studies of Confucian and Chinese Go.
He donated HK$1million for disaster relief in July 1991 and HK$3 million to build a library at Jiaxing School of Higher Education in 1993. In 1994, he donated HK$200,000 to the school's library to purchase books. The property of his family is estimated at HK$1.2 billion by December 1995.
Interest: Playing Go
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