雪山飛狐
core novel 1959 The Book and the Sword
Record
| First published | 1959 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  ZH |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.83 (591 ratings, collected 2026-11-02) |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Set beyond the Great Wall under the Qianlong Emperor, the novel takes place over a single day, with a century of history told in flashbacks by several narrators. It centres on a feud between four families descended from bodyguards of the rebel leader Li Zicheng, and on Hu Fei, the 'Flying Fox of the Snowy Mountain', and his relationship with Miao Ruolan, the daughter of his family's enemy. (English title: Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain.)
Where it sits
- Universe: The Book and the Sword
- Series: The Book and the Sword core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Jin Yong
Notes
- Serialised in the New Evening Post (Hong Kong) from 9 February to 18 June 1959; a short novel of about 130,000 Chinese characters. English translation by Olivia Mok, Chinese University Press, 1993.
- From the series record (The Book and the Sword): Qing-era wuxia novels following the Red Flower Society and the swordsman Hu Fei.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Book and the Sword: position 2 of 3: previous 書劍恩仇錄 (1955) · next 飛狐外傳 (1960)
- Internal chronology, within The Book and the Sword: position 3 of 3: previous 飛狐外傳 (1960)
Sources
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