{"id":31852,"date":"2009-01-27T07:02:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T14:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=31852"},"modified":"2009-01-27T11:01:26","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T18:01:26","slug":"reports-chinese-martial-arts-novelist-liang-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/01\/reports-chinese-martial-arts-novelist-liang-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Chinese Martial Arts Novelist Liang Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2009\/01\/27\/asia\/AS-Hong-Kong-Obit-Liang.php\">AP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liang_Yusheng\">Liang Yusheng<\/a>, a pioneer in Chinese martial arts novels, has died, news reports said. He was 85.<\/p>\n<p>Liang died at his home in Sydney, Australia on Jan. 22, the Australian edition of the Hong Kong newspaper Sing Tao Daily reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Luo Fu, the former editor of the now-defunct Sin Wan Bao newspaper, which hired Liang to write his first kung fu series, was quoted by Hong Kong&#8217;s Ming Pao Daily News on Tuesday as saying that Liang had died.<\/p>\n<p>Liang, whose real name was Chen Wuntong, has been in poor health in recent years, diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2004 and suffering a stroke when he visited Hong Kong in 2007, Ming Pao said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danwei.org\/front_page_of_the_day\/martial_arts_novelist_liang_yu.php\">a post from Danwei<\/a> on Liang&#8217;s death, which includes translations of Chinese media reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Liang Yusheng, a pioneer in Chinese martial arts novels, has died, news reports said. He was 85. Liang died at his home in Sydney, Australia on Jan. 22, the Australian edition of the Hong Kong newspaper Sing Tao Daily reported Monday. Luo Fu, the former editor of the now-defunct Sin Wan Bao newspaper, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,35],"tags":[5343,1766],"class_list":["post-31852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-hong-kong","tag-martial-arts","tag-writers","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Reports: Chinese Martial Arts Novelist Liang Dies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/01\/reports-chinese-martial-arts-novelist-liang-dies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reports: Chinese Martial Arts Novelist Liang Dies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From AP: Liang Yusheng, a pioneer in Chinese martial arts novels, has died, news reports said. 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