Ode to Gallantry

Ode to Gallantry
Cover of a 1980 edition of the novel.
AuthorJin Yong
Original title俠客行
LanguageChinese
GenreWuxia
PublisherMing Pao
Publication date
1965
Publication placeHong Kong
Media typePrint
Ode to Gallantry
Traditional Chinese俠客行
Simplified Chinese侠客行
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXiá Kè Xíng
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingHaap6 Haak3 Haang4

Ode to Gallantry (俠客行; Xiá Kè Xíng) is a wuxia novel by Jin Yong (Louis Cha). It was first serialised in Hong Kong from 11 June 1966 to 19 April 1967 in the newspaper Ming Pao.[1] The novel shares the same Chinese title as a poem by the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai, which was used as its epigraph.

  1. ^ The date conforms to the data published in Chen Zhenhui (陳鎮輝), Wuxia Xiaoshuo Xiaoyao Tan (武俠小說逍遙談), 2000, Huizhi Publishing Company (匯智出版有限公司), p. 57.