The Return of the Condor Heroes - Yang Guo, Huang Yaoshi, Guo Jing, Dugu Qiubai, Huang Rong, Ouyang Feng, Zhou Botong, Xiaolongnu, Hong Qigong (Paperback)

Chapters: Yang Guo, Huang Yaoshi, Guo Jing, Dugu Qiubai, Huang Rong, Ouyang Feng, Zhou Botong, Xiaolongnu, Hong Qigong, Mu Nianci. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 80. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Yang Guo (simplified Chinese: traditional Chinese: Mandarin Pinyin: Yang Guo; Jyutping: Joeng4 Gwo3) is the fictional protagonist in the 1959 Chinese Wuxia novel The Return of the Condor Heroes by Jin Yong. Yang Guo is a personification icon in Chinese Wuxia culture for rebellious youth. His love affair with his teacher Xiaolongnu is one of the classic love stories in Wuxia fiction. One of the main themes in the novel is his personal development from an immature and rebellious youth into a legendary hero as he grows older. He bears a striking resemblance to his father Yang Kang for his cunning and mercurial nature, but also shares some traits of the kindness and devotion of his mother Mu Nianci. Yang Guo is born in 1224 to Yang Kang and Mu Nianci. He traces his lineage to Yang Zaixing, a famous subordinate of Yue Fei, who participated actively in the war between Song and Jin. His birth is briefly mentioned towards the end in the prequel novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes. His father Yang Kang is the primary antagonist in the prequel, who was notorious for having committed several acts of evil. Yang Kang acknowledged the man responsible for the death of his parents as his father and abetted the Jurchens of the Jin Empire in exploiting his own race (Han Chinese) of the Song Dynasty. As such, Yang Kang was seen by Han Chinese pugilists as a dishonorable traitor for choosing wealth, fame and power over his own heritage and parents. Yang Kang met his retributive end in the Temple of the Iron Spear after he was poisoned by a deadly venom when he struck Huang Rong's poisoned-stained s...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=970532