FLOOD OF WARM MEMORIES PROMPTED

Tributes paid to influential martial arts novelist Louis Cha

Jianghu, or "rivers and lakes", is an imaginary world where knights, hermits and hooligans fight and coexist. The value upheld there is xia, a combination of courage, justice and self-sacrifice.

This world is never a hideaway from the real one. The heroes fight for the disadvantaged against evil, defend their country in wartime, and even re-examine their narrow nationalism and learn to understand the peoples and cultures that they oppose.