John Minford

In Praise of Jin Yong (16 person items)

" "I think if what you want is a really entertaining story with lots of action, and lots of humour and lots of local colour, if you want to read something that will completely carry you away into another world in which you can continue to dream and have fantasies, then read one of Jin Yong's novels because that's what they're like. They're very old-fashioned in that sense. People don't write books like that anymore, you know, these are real old-fashioned, historical, romance novels. Just like th"