China Focus: Farewell swordsman: Readers saddened by death of Chinese martial arts novelist Jin Yong

In this file photo, Jin Yong (L) signs a book for a reader during Hong Kong Book Fair in Hong Kong, south China, on July 22, 2001. Famous Chinese martial arts novelist Louis Cha Leung-yung, more widely known by his pen name Jin Yong, died at 94 at a hospital in Hong Kong on Tuesday. Cha created many widespread martial arts novels between 1955 and 1972. Cha, who also co-founded the Hong Kong daily newspaper Ming Pao, has been regarded as one of the greatest and most popular martial arts writers. (Xinhua/Shen Qiao)