Jin Yong is one of the best-known Chinese writers of the twentieth century. Born in 1924 in China's Zhejiang Province

but now based in Hong Kong, Jin Yong (Louis Cha) is a novelist, journalist, publisher, political commentator, and

historian as well as Buddhist scholar. He is an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford and Wynflete Fellow of

Magdalen College, also at Oxford. He was made an Officer of the British Empire by the Queen and received the Chevalier

de la Legion d'honneur from France. The University of Hong Kong honoured him with the award of the degree of Doctor

of Social Sciences and the University of British Columbia with the award of the degree of Doctor of Literature. Olivia

Mok, the translator of this book, was born and raised in Hong Kong. She has studied in Hong Kong, the United States and

the United Kingdom and worked in various fields. She also taught translation at the City University of Hong Kong. This

book represents her first major effort at translating a major work of contemporary Chinese literature into English.

One of the most famous and popular of Jin Yong's works, Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain is a riveting martial arts tale

enmeshed in intrigue, action, and suspense. Set in 1781 Manchuria during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, it tells the

story of the feud between descendants of the bodyguards of the would-be usurper of the Ming dynasty more than a

century prior. As the only English version of the Chinese text, Fox Volant has been skillfully rendered by Olivia Mok into

a translation that maintains the lucidity and excitement of the original Chinese. Cherished among Chinese readers around

the world, it is now available for the enjoyment of English-language audiences interested in wuxia and popular Chinese fiction.