Ni Kuang

Ni Kuang (also known as Ngai Hong or Yi Kuang) (simplified Chinese: 倪匡, (traditional Chinese: 倪匡) (born May 30, 1935 in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China) is a prolific Chinese novelist and scriptwriter, with more than 300 published martial arts and science fiction novels and more than 400 movie scripts.

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Simplified Chinese - Traditional Chinese - May 30 - 1935 - Ningbo - Zhejiang - China - Chinese - Novelist - Scriptwriter - Martial arts - Science fiction

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Born as Ni Chong (traditional Chinese: 倪聰), he grew up in Shanghai. He worked as a public security official in the 1950s in Inner Mongolia before moving to Hong Kong in 1957.

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Shanghai - Public security - Inner Mongolia - Hong Kong - 1957

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His science fictions, which have been enjoyed by generations of juvenile readers in Hong Kong, usually take the form of mystery - at the end the unexplainable is, more often than not, explained by pointing to the doings of extraterrestrial life. The most famous heroes in his sci-fics, which have been adapted into TV dramas and films, are Wai See-lei (or Wisely ???) and Yuen Tsang-hop (or Dr. Yuen ???).

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Hong Kong - Mystery - Extraterrestrial life - Hero - TV - Film

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It is rumored that Ni helped Louis Cha to write episodes of his martial arts novels when Cha was busying himself with other business; and, according to the late Wong Jim, that was the reason why Cha, dissatisfied with Ni's often wild extemporisations, had to revise his novels.

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Louis Cha - Wong Jim

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