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The Book and the Sword

By Graham, Yong/ Earnshaw, John/ Jin, Rachel/ Minford, Graham (TRN)/ May, Louis/ Earnshaw, Louis Cha, John Minford (Translator)

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| Hardcover | 9780195907278

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Louis Cha's martial arts epics have sold millions of copies worldwide. Many of them have appeared on best-sellers' lists in Chinese markets and have been adapted into television series and films. The Book and Sword, Louis Cha's first novel, is about an underworld plot to overthrow the reign of EmperContinue

Louis Cha's martial arts epics have sold millions of copies worldwide. Many of them have appeared on best-sellers' lists in Chinese markets and have been adapted into television series and films. The Book and Sword, Louis Cha's first novel, is about an underworld plot to overthrow the reign of Emperor Qianlong (1736-1795). It revives a legend about the great Manchu Emperor, which claims that he was in fact not a Manchu but a Han Chinese as a result of a "baby swap." The novel is panoramic in scope and includes the fantastical elements for which Cha is well-known: secret societies, kungfu masters, a lost desert city guarded by wolf packs, and the mysterious Fragrant Princess. [예스24 제공]

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  • The Book and the Sword

    LOUIS CHA is one of China's best-known and most widely-read novelists, somewhat incongruously -- given the city's reputation for being a literary wasteland -- hailing from Hong Kong. He is almost entirely unknown outside the Chinese-speaking world, s ... (read full critics)

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 536 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0195907272
  • ISBN-13: 9780195907278
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Pub date: Jan 20, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 1032 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
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