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| Author | Jin Yong |
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| Original title | 笑傲江湖 |
| Language | Chinese |
| Genre | Wuxia |
| Publisher | Ming Pao |
Publication date | 1967 |
| Publication place | Hong Kong |
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| Preceded by | The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber |
| Followed by | The Sword Stained with Royal Blood |
| The Smiling, Proud Wanderer | |||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 笑傲江湖 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 笑傲江湖 | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Laughing Proudly in the Jianghu | ||||||||||
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The Smiling, Proud Wanderer is a wuxia novel by Jin Yong (Louis Cha). It was first serialised in Hong Kong in the newspaper Ming Pao from 20 April 1967 to 12 October 1969.[1] The Chinese title of the novel, Xiao Ao Jiang Hu, literally means to live a carefree life in a mundane world of strife. Alternate English translations of the title include The Wandering Swordsman,[2] Laughing in the Wind,[3] The Peerless Gallant Errant,[4] and The Proud and Gallant Wanderer.[5] Another alternative title, State of Divinity, is used for some of the novel's adaptations.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Morton, Lisa (2001). The Cinema of Tsui Hark. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 171. ISBN 0786409908.
- ^ Tong, Simon (2008). "The Beat of a Different Drum". In Pung, Alice (ed.). Growing Up Asian in Australia. Black Inc. p. 43. ISBN 978-1921825453.
- ^ Wu, Dingbo; Murphy, Patrick D., eds. (1994). "Gallant Fiction". Handbook of Chinese Popular Culture. Greenwood Press. p. 248. ISBN 0313278083.
- ^ Mostow, Joshua, ed. (2003). "Martial-Arts Fiction and Jin Yong". The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature. Columbia University Press. p. 512. ISBN 0231113145.