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The BBC article and wikipedia entry hint to Jin Yong going to Hong Kong (was this exile?) and some of his publications were initially banned in mainland China a

The BBC article and wikipedia entry hint to Jin Yong going to Hong Kong (was this exile?) and some of his publications were initially banned in mainland China and Taiwan. So it seems he was not well liked by the elite/party at first. Question: When did attitudes toward him change in mainland China? Immediately at the end of the cultural revolution? Am I getting this all wrong?

iflp 8y ago
Approximately. I don't think there is anything special about his work being banned before - it's typical to ban works not aligned with the communist ideology before the reform in 1980s. On exile: like many intellectuals, he fled mainland China before the founding of PRC.
victoriasun 8y ago
JY escaped China. His father was executed by the communist party, and well, if you were alive at the time you were well aware of what the risks were of staying or leaving. He chose to leave. Chinese oppression in the time pre-the Internet is very different from what it is now. One could argue that the lack of a centralized Internet and single "firewall" creates opportunities for JY's newsletter to spread underground. Regardless of his ban, he was already a famous author in Hong Kong, and his work spread. In the 1980s Deng Xiaoping, Mao's successor met with JY as he was a massive fan of JY's work. Together they instrumented a lot of political change in China in a desire to make it more open. This meeting later resulted in the ban being lifted.
forkLding 8y ago
Jin Yong fled to Hong Kong likely to escape the Chinese Civil War, WW2 or the Communists. No enough info here. Censorship was there in mainland China but books were still easy to carry around and read. From the wikia: "Despite Jinyong's popularity, some of his novels were banned outside Hong Kong due to political reasons. A number of them were outlawed in the People's Republic of China in the 1970s as they were thought to be satires of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution; others were banned in the Republic of China on Taiwan as they were thought to be in support of the Communist Party of China. None of these bans exists today, and Jinyong's complete collection has been published multiple times in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China. Many politicians on both sides of the Straits are known to be readers of his works; Deng Xiaoping, for example, was himself an avowed fan."
- bfung 8y ago
  To tack on to the parent explanation - A joke in passing these days is "how many remakes of [Legend of Condor Heroes|Insert other JY works here] have you watched?" Both mainland, hk, and taiwan have remade multiple of his works since the 70s. The latest is 笑傲江湖 2018, filmed in mainland.. I think this is the 2nd remake of this title mainland has done - and they've definitely run through most of the popular titles already once. So, it's wildly popular throughout.

iflp 8y ago

Approximately. I don't think there is anything special about his work being banned before - it's typical to ban works not aligned with the communist ideology before the reform in 1980s. On exile: like many intellectuals, he fled mainland China before the founding of PRC.

victoriasun 8y ago

JY escaped China. His father was executed by the communist party, and well, if you were alive at the time you were well aware of what the risks were of staying or leaving. He chose to leave. Chinese oppression in the time pre-the Internet is very different from what it is now. One could argue that the lack of a centralized Internet and single "firewall" creates opportunities for JY's newsletter to spread underground. Regardless of his ban, he was already a famous author in Hong Kong, and his work spread. In the 1980s Deng Xiaoping, Mao's successor met with JY as he was a massive fan of JY's work. Together they instrumented a lot of political change in China in a desire to make it more open. This meeting later resulted in the ban being lifted.

forkLding 8y ago

Jin Yong fled to Hong Kong likely to escape the Chinese Civil War, WW2 or the Communists. No enough info here. Censorship was there in mainland China but books were still easy to carry around and read. From the wikia: "Despite Jinyong's popularity, some of his novels were banned outside Hong Kong due to political reasons. A number of them were outlawed in the People's Republic of China in the 1970s as they were thought to be satires of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution; others were banned in the Republic of China on Taiwan as they were thought to be in support of the Communist Party of China. None of these bans exists today, and Jinyong's complete collection has been published multiple times in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China. Many politicians on both sides of the Straits are known to be readers of his works; Deng Xiaoping, for example, was himself an avowed fan."

bfung 8y ago
To tack on to the parent explanation - A joke in passing these days is "how many remakes of [Legend of Condor Heroes|Insert other JY works here] have you watched?" Both mainland, hk, and taiwan have remade multiple of his works since the 70s. The latest is 笑傲江湖 2018, filmed in mainland.. I think this is the 2nd remake of this title mainland has done - and they've definitely run through most of the popular titles already once. So, it's wildly popular throughout.