Concert tour planned to remember Hong Kong novelist

The China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater is preparing to launch a concert tour as a tribute to Hong Kong martial arts novelist Louis Cha Leung-yung.

The novelist, better known by his pen name Jin Yong, passed away on Oct 30 in Hong Kong, at the age of 94.

Jin Yong, who was born in Hangzhou and moved to Hong Kong in 1948 to work for the newspaper Ta Kung Pao, is most famous for his Chinese wuxia (martial arts) novels, which have been repeatedly adapted into television dramas and films over the decades.