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‘China’s Shakespeare’ Louis Cha passes away aged 94

Louis Cha Leung-yung, the world’s most popular Chinese novel writer, who also used the pen name Jin Yong, passed away on Tuesday. He was 94. The founder of Ming Pao, a reputable daily Chinese-language newspaper in Hong Kong, died of liver cancer at the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital. Cha, often called China’s answer to […]

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