New book Interprets Jin Yong’s Kongfu Novel
Published by Phoenix Publishing House, the Cambridge History of the Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber (revised and collecter’s edition) by Xin Yuanping provides a fresh way of interpreting kongfu novels for readers. The book analyzes figures and plots in the Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber by Jin Yong from a historical research perspective.
The book reviews the process of rising, growing and expanding of Ming Cult, including the eventual founding of the vast Ming Empire by Ming Cults. In this book, many of important stories have been dissected in a distinct way, and the humorous language of the book offers readers refreshing reading experience. The book expects readers to be familiar with the Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber.
Chinese Social Sciences Today, Oct. 22, 2012
(Translated by Yang Min)