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Jin Yong

Died in 2018

Zha Liangyong, who signed as Jin Yong, was born on 6 February 1924 in Haining, in Zhejiang. A journalist, he was sent to Hong Kong in 1948, then in 1959 founded, with others, the daily Ming Pao, which he ran. He published his fifteen novels between 1955 and 1972. A member of the drafting committee of the Hong Kong Basic Law, he resigned from it in 1989, after the crackdown on the Beijing spring. He died in Hong Kong on 30 October 2018.

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