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| Ni was a prolific writer of over 300 novels |
Science fiction fans are mourning the loss of novelist Ni Kuang who died on July 3 at the age of 87 of skin cancer.
He was very prolific, writing over 300 novels around the themes of wuxia and science fiction, as well as over 400 film scripts. How he managed to do all that is an amazing feat in itself.
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| Ni came to Hong Kong in 1957 |
But five years later he was convicted to 10 years' imprisonment as a counter-revolutionary when he and other soldiers removed wooden planks from a bridge to burn so that they could stay warm in winter. Ni thought he would receive the death sentence when his dog bit the commanding officer, and it took him six months to flee to Hong Kong via Dalian, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Portuguese colony Macau.
He arrived in Hong Kong in 1957 and started off working as a labourer. He became a writer after Ni won a writing competition in a newspaper.
Some of his best known works include Wisely Series, and Dr Yuen, as well as screenplays for such films as Fist of Fury, One-Armed Swordsman, The Assassin, and Crippled Avengers.
Ni was a staunch anti-communist and in Britain's impending handover of Hong Kong back to China in 1997, he immigrated to the United States with his wife in 1992, but they returned in 2006 after she could not get used to the lifestyle there.
Nevertheless, Ni was well known for his anti-communist stance, which he would weave into his work.
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| Many of his novels were adapted for film |
Another journalist points out that in Ni's science fiction novel Chase the Dragon, he wrote about the fall of a great city in the east. It was not destroyed by natural disasters, but human's wrongdoings. And he wrote this around the time of the Sino-British Joint Declaration in the early 1980s...
How prescient.
But perhaps he just knew from his personal experiences what would happen to Hong Kong...
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