A: Apart from Jin Yong, the late martial arts novelists Liang Yusheng and Gu Long were also very popular.
B: Wasn’t Liang a pioneer of the “new school” wuxia genre in the 20th century?
A: Yup, I really like his Tianshan mountain series. All the characters — such as the “White Haired Demoness” — are so vivid.
Photo: Hong Kong’s Sing Pao 照片：香港《成報》提供
B: The roles in Gu’s books are lively, too — like the “Fragrant Commander” Chu Liuxiang.
A: And the TV drama adapted from the Chu Liuxiang series swept across Taiwan in the 1980s, with ratings surging over 70 percent at that time.
A: 除了金庸外，已故武俠大師梁羽生、古龍也很受歡迎！
B: 梁羽生不是20世紀「新派」武俠文體的創始人嗎？
A: 對，我喜歡他的天山系列，書中的「白髮魔女」等角色都很生動鮮明。
B: 古龍筆下的「香帥」楚留香等人物也都栩栩如生。
A: 楚留香系列改編的電視劇在1980年代席捲全台，收視率更突破70％呢。
（By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times／台北時報張迪）
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