Dream of the Seven-Pronged SwordAuthor: Gene, Kwang-yu KING
Publisher: Locus Publishing Company Published Date: 2011/10 【Synopsis】 In the city of Zhangye, two decades before most of the action in this novel, a baby, who carried in his veins the blood of the royal family of Yan, was born. In the fourth century the Kingdom of Yan had been destroyed by the Former Qin. All the baby possessed was a gold sword that had been passed down through his family. Meanwhile, in distant Shandong, the baby’s paternal uncle Murong De was secretly hatching a plan to reestablish the Southern Yan Kingdom. Murong Chao was the baby who inherited that seven-pronged gold sword. As he made his way back to his native land, he had many interesting encounters and experiences. He stayed at a Qiang fort. He worked as a shepherd and learned martial arts techniques from kung-fu masters that he happened to meet. With central Asian traders, he traveled to China’s far west beyond the Yumen Pass, coming into contact with the Sino-Turkic peoples of the steppe. He studied under the great Buddhist monks Faxian and Kumarajiva, from whom he developed great breadth of mind. He experienced Changan as a captive, a beggar, a lunatic, and an escaped convict. But at long last, was Murong Chao able to make it to his homeland? The greatest martial arts novel of the contemporary era! In the tradition of Louis Cha and Gu Long, Jin Guang-yu is a master of martial arts fiction. 【About the Author】 Gene Kwang-yu KING, architect, writer, former editor-in-chief, chief curator Mr. KING is an architect by profession. He established King Shih Architects with his Erin C. Shih in Taipei, Taiwan. They have completed a variety of projects, including the Expo Hall of the 2010 Taipei International Flora Expo. Mr. KING started writing in high school, and was given numerous accolades in his youth including the United Daily News Fiction Award in 1982 and the Sun-Yet-San Literary Award in 1989. He published four collections of short stories and essays around this time. From 1998 to 2005, Mr. KING acted as editor-in-chief for Dialogue, a monthly publication on architecture, design, and culture published in Taiwan and distributed internationally. Through international invitation, Mr. KING was given the position of chief curator of the 2011-12 Hong Kong Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, a rare honor for Taiwan's cultural sphere. Through architecture and writing, Mr. KING hopes to promote cultural diversity so as to balance the prevailing globalization that is wiping out valued differences. This novel is yet another effort to demonstrate that a rich, diversified world did exist in a place and time that we did traditionally not pay much attention to. |
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