First instalment of The Book and the Sword serialised on New Evening Post

In early 1954, a sensational match was held in Macao between Wu Kung I, a direct descendant of the founder of the Wu style Tai Chi Chuan, and Chen Kefu, a master of the White Crane School. Riding on the media hype generated from the Wu-Chen contest, the New Evening Post launched the serialised novel Boxer Rebellion in the Capital City by Liang Yusheng (whose real name was Chen Wentong), and it became a hit with readers. Luo Fu, the then editor-in-chief of the New Evening Post, asked another employee, Louis Cha, to also contribute a serial martial arts novel, culminating in the release on 8 February 1955 of The Book and the Sword under Cha’s pen name, Jin Yong.