Ni Kuang

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Ni Kuang
Ni Kuang at Hong Kong Shue Yan University, November 2007
Born	May 30, 1935 (1935-05-30) (age 76) Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
Occupation	Novelist, screenwriter
Genres	Wuxia, science fiction

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Ni.

Ni Kuang (Chinese: 倪匡; born May 30, 1935 in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China), also known as Ngai Hong, I Kuang or Yi Kuang, is a Hong Kong-based Chinese novelist and screenwriter, with more than 300 published wuxia and science fiction novels and more than 400 film scripts. He is the brother of another romance novelist, Yi Shu.

Biography

Born Ni Chong (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.

Ni's science fiction stories, which have been enjoyed by generations of juvenile readers in Hong Kong, usually take the form of mysteries- often featuring extraterrestrial life as a deus ex machina to explain the impossible and implasusible. The most famous of his science fiction heroes are Wai See-lei (or Wisely 衛斯理) and Yuen Tsang-hop (or Dr. Yuen 原振俠), both have appeared in television and film adaptions. In these stories criticism of communism is common.

Ni wrote many scripts for the Shaw Brothers Studio, and often co-wrote scripts with Chang Cheh, including films such as One-Armed Swordsman, The Assassin and Crippled Avengers. In 1972, Ni was the screenwriter for Fist of Fury, and received credit for creating the film's main character, Chen Zhen (played by Bruce Lee). Chen Zhen became a popular Chinese culture hero and has been the subject of numerous remakes and adaptations of Fist of Fury. Other actors such as Jet Li and Donnie Yen have played the role of Chen Zhen after Bruce Lee.

Ni is a friend and fan of wuxia writer Louis Cha. It is known that Ni had written at least an extended episode in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils when Cha was out on holiday in Europe, although much of it was excised in Cha's first revision. Ni, while helping Cha write nearly 40 days of serialization while he was abroad, made A'zi, a character from Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, blind in the story.^[1] Cha has since re-edited his wuxia works.

Ni later migrated to the United States in the 1990s and has continued his writing career there. In 2006, Ni and his wife moved back to Hong Kong after he sold his home in the United States.

Ni's son, Joe Nieh, works in the Hong Kong entertainment industry and after a twenty year long relationship is now the husband of Vivian Chow.

References

1. ^ "第二点，是确曾「代笔」。那是金庸在写「天龙八部」期间，忽有长期游欧洲计划。而香港报纸的长篇连载，一般来说，不能断稿，於是找我，代写三四十天....商议定当之後，就开始撰写....一时无两，战战兢兢，写了大约六万字左右，到金庸欧游回来，才算松了一口气....然而当他回来之後，见面第一句话，我就说：「对不起，我将阿紫的眼睛弄瞎了！」阿紫是「天龙八部」中一个相当重要的人物。我讨厌这个人，所以令她瞎了眼。金庸听了。也唯有苦笑....我所写的那一段，在旧版书出版时，收进单行本中。金庸将全部作品修订改正之际，曾特地来商量....金庸果然有办法，他改动了一些，结果就是如今各位看到的情形。" 倪匡《我看金庸小说》

External links

• Ni Kuang at the Internet Movie Database

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Date of birth	May 30, 1935
Place of birth	Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
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