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Post by kyc on May 9, 2022 17:27:58 GMT
In case anyone is wondering, Patriarch JY once set up a Chinese-language newspaper called The Shin Min Daily 新明日報 in Singapore, which he founded with Liang Runzhi, a Singaporean businessman. JY later sold all his shares in Shin Min Daily because the Singapore government forbid foreigners to hold substantial shares in the press. The series ran recently and just ended I think. I am indebted to a friend for showing me this. P/S: That handsome young guy in b/w whom the series claimed was Jin Yong might be... Qian Zhongshu, the scholar and writer who wrote Fortress Besieged. I don't know who is correct, Wikipedia or Shin Min. I think it looks more like Qian Zhongshu, if you compare with their respective photos in old age.
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Post by kyc on May 9, 2022 17:30:45 GMT
More clippings at the end. For the benefit of those who do not read Chinese, I’ll summarize the more interesting parts: 1) JY stayed a few months in Singapore during the HK riots of 1967. He was under death threats by the ultra-left wingers (during the early days of the Cultural Revolution). He hid in Singapore where he founded the Shin Min Daily with Liang Runzhi, the businessman who owned Axe Brand Medicated Oil. 2) The Smiling, Proud Wanderer and The Deer and the Cauldron were first serialized in Shin Min Daily. The early parts of The Smiling, Proud Wanderer was serialized there half a month before Ming Pao, during JY’s stay in Singapore (he wrote the early parts there). For The Deer and the Cauldron, Singaporean readers also got to read the installments first. (Time to update the Wikipedia entry.) Just in case anyone is wondering, I think Shin Min Daily is/was an evening paper, Ming Pao a morning paper. 3) When Singaporean comic book artist Huang Zhanming asked to purchase the copyright of The Return of the Condor Heroes, JY gave it to him for free. 4) One of JY’s favorite dishes is the Reeves shad, a kind of fish native to Zhejiang/the South China Sea. The fish isn’t cheap. He liked it steamed with vinegar. 5) The former editors of Shin Min Daily who knew him personally said JY was like Guo Jing who was always dreaming of a Huang Rong. Although outwardly serious, he was soft-spoken, courteous and friendly to his colleagues, and very flexible in his thinking. 6) JY read widely both in Chinese and English, including Nobel Prize laureates. He brought a lot of books (two big boxes) to Singapore during his stay here. 7) JY liked to think with his feet resting on the table while he smoked. He claimed that blood could flow better back to the body which would help reduce piles (!). His colleague in Shin Min thought he might be joking. 8) JY called Singapore “an old friend”, praising the country for its fairness in treating ethnic minorities and calling it a true “immigrant society”. So of course he’d forgive some guy here who said bad things about him.
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