Welcome to my translation of Kung Fu by Giddens Ko, the story of a Taiwanese middle school student who is obsessed with wuxia novels and ends up learning martial arts from a mysterious old man. A movie based on Kung Fu is set to be released this year. I have included extensive footnotes throughout the translation (190 in total), which I hope will be a big help for people not familiar with wuxia and Chinese culture.
Giddens Ko is a popular Taiwanese author and director. The Chinese pseudonym under which he writes literally means "nine knives." To date he has written about 60 books. His directorial debut "You Are the Apple of My Eye" was based on his own novel of the same name.
这是九把刀功夫的译本。阅读愉快!
Here is a link to some information about the author.
Here's the teaser trailer of the movie which is supposed to come out next year:
Youtube version
Youku version
Here is a comic book adaptation of the story (in Chinese, sorry no English. But you can look at the cool pictures). The comic book has a somewhat different ending than the book.
Some articles about the movie production:
ScreenDaily.com
Filmbiz.asia
Yahoo article about delay in production
Some photos from the set.
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Table of Contents
Part 1
Prologue
Old Man (1), (2), (3)
A terrifying annoyance (1), (2), (3), (4)
Part 2
Old Man (1), (2)
A room without walls (1), (2), (3)
Becoming a disciple (1), (2), (3), (4)
Part 3
A first glance at the way (1), (2), (3), (4)
Bam! (1), (2), (3), (4)
Lan Jin (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9)
Part 4
Seafloor (1), (2), (3), (4)
Three Hundred Years (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
Paper Airplane (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)
Part 5
Justice and the Law (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8)
The reality of a twisted contradiction (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
Part 6
A rival in love (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10)
A horrific secret (1), (2), (3), (4)
Part 7
What was false becomes true (1), (2), (3), (4)
A decisive battle to span a dreamland(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9)
The Stance of Justice
Epilogue