Huang Yi (author)

Wong Cho-keung
Born15 March 1952
British Hong Kong
Died5 April 2017(2017-04-05) (aged 65)
Hong Kong
Pen nameWong Yee(黃易)
Wong On(黃安)
OccupationWriter
NationalityHong Konger
Genremartial heroes, science fiction
Wong Yee
Traditional Chinese黃易
Simplified Chinese黄易
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHuáng Yì
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingWong4 Jik6
Wong Cho Keung
Traditional Chinese黃祖強
Simplified Chinese黄祖强
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHuáng Zǔqiáng
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingWong4 Zou2-koeng4

Wong Cho-keung (15 March 1952 – 5 April 2017), better known by his pen name Wong Yee or Wong On, was a HongKonger writer of Wuxia (martial arts heroes) and science fiction novels. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and once worked as the Assistant Chairperson of Hong Kong Museum of Art. Apart from his literary endeavors, he was also a painter and a musician who played the piano and the guqin.

In the 1990s, after its golden age, "wuxia" fiction was increasingly under attack by the general public and was losing its previous aura. However, Wong's emergence infused new life into the genre.

Wong combined science fiction with traditional Chinese culture (metaphysics, philosophy, etc.) to create a new style of work. Currently, his popularity has resulted in some people describing this phenomenon as a flurry of Wong sweeping through China.

Upon conclusion of his longest novel, Datang Shuanglong Zhuan, Wong commented that he would like to follow in the footstep of Louis Cha and to revise and improve his released novels.[citation needed]

There are some Hong Kong television series adapted from Wong's novels, such as A Step Into The Past (2001), Twin of Brothers (2004) and Lethal Weapons of Love and Passion (2006).

Wong's works give readers a sense of modernity. The vivid text and the bright rhythm make the plot appear like a dynamic picture, which appears in the reader's mind, making people look like their own experience. As a master, he increased his life and death to the height of "Tao", and integrated justice and evil into his philosophical theory, and expounded his views on all things in the world with the language of philosophical charm and the thought of all things. What really gives these novels the soul is the most Chinese philosophy and traditional culture. He had very extensive experience in art, astronomy, history, metaphysics, and the number of five lines of art. He was able to study the Zhouyi ("I Ching"), the Buddhist theory and the ideas of each family, so that he could still run the traditional spirit of Chinese swordsman when he managed the creative subjects and characters.

Wong died in Hong Kong on 5 April 2017 from a stroke while in hospital at the age of 65.[1][2]

  1. ^ Cheung, Tony (6 April 2017). "Tributes to Hong Kong martial arts novelist Huang Yi". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2017-04-08.
  2. ^ Rui, Zhang (7 April 2017). "Iconic HK martial arts novelist Huang Yi dies - China.org.cn". China.org.cn. Retrieved 2017-04-08.