The Young Flying Fox

The Young Flying Fox
One part of The Young Flying Fox from the magazine Wuxia and History
AuthorJin Yong
Original title飛狐外傳
LanguageChinese
GenreWuxia
PublisherWuxia and History
Publication date
1960
Publication placeHong Kong
Media typePrint
Preceded byThe Book and the Sword 
Followed byThe Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain 
The Young Flying Fox
Traditional Chinese飛狐外傳
Simplified Chinese飞狐外传
Literal meaningFlying Fox Tales
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinFēi Hú Wài Zhuàn
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingFei1 Wu4 Ngoi6 Zyun6

The Young Flying Fox[1][2] is a wuxia novel by Jin Yong (Louis Cha). The novel was first serialised in Hong Kong in 1960[3] in the magazine Wuxia and History (武俠與歷史). The novel is a prequel to Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain and was written a year after its literary predecessor.

  1. ^ Hamm, John Christopher (2005). Paper Swordsmen: Jin Yong And The Modern Chinese Martial Arts Novel. University of Hawaii Press. p. 130. ISBN 978-0-8248-2763-2.
  2. ^ Huss, Ann; Liu, Jianmei (2007). The Jin Yong Phenomenon: Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and Modern Chinese Literary History. Cambria Press. p. 195. ISBN 978-1-934043-08-0.
  3. ^ 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. 58.