LOTS IN TRANSLATION

After 60 years, Jin Yong's three epic wuxia series, Legends of Condor Heroes, is being translated into 12 English volumes. Mei Jia reports.

Ninety-four-year-old Louis Cha Leung-yung, perhaps better known by his nomme de plume Jin Yong, is probably the best-known and most widely read living author in the Chinese-speaking world.

His 15 novels, at a rough estimation, have sold at least 350 million copies, while he also has a huge body of adaptations for TV series, films, games and animations to his name.