Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain (simplified Chinese: 雪山飞狐; traditional Chinese: 雪山飛狐; pinyin: Xuě Shān Fēi Hú; Jyutping: Syut3 Saan1 Fei1 Wu4), or Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain, is a Wuxia novel by Louis Cha. It was first serialized in 1959 in Ming Pao in Hong Kong.
Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain has a prequel; Other Tales of the Flying Fox, released in 1960.
The novel is one of Louis Cha's shortest novels with only 10 chapters. Unlike the rest of ...
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Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain (simplified Chinese: 雪山飞狐; traditional Chinese: 雪山飛狐; pinyin: Xuě Shān Fēi Hú; Jyutping: Syut3 Saan1 Fei1 Wu4), or Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain, is a Wuxia novel by Louis Cha. It was first serialized in 1959 in Ming Pao in Hong Kong.
Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain has a prequel; Other Tales of the Flying Fox, released in 1960.
The novel is one of Louis Cha's shortest novels with only 10 chapters. Unlike the rest of his novels, its chapters do not have literary headings, and are simply labelled in Chinese numerical order.
The story begins in the northeastern Changbai mountains of China, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. A group of pugilists unearth a treasure chest on the mountains and begin fighting for it. Later, they are coerced by a highly-skilled monk called Bao Shu to travel to a manor at the top of Jade Brush Peak (玉筆峰). They are invited there to help the manor's owner drive away an enemy called Hu Fei, who is nicknamed ...
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