Dulu Wang (1909-1977) was a famous Chinese Chivalry (Martial Art) novelist in the nineteen thirties and forties who wrote many novels including Crane-Iron Pentalogy (Dancing Crane, Singing Phoenix舞鹤鸣鸾记 aka鶴驚昆侖, 1940; Precious Sword, Golden Hairpin寶劍金釵, 1938; Sword Spirit, Pearl Light劍氣珠光, 1939; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 臥虎藏龍, 1941; and Iron Knight, Silver Vase 鐵騎銀瓶, 1942) which was adapted into a film under the title ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’by Ang Lee and his colleagues in 2000. Its spectacular action, rhapsodic landscapes and tragic romance have touched audiences in Asia, North America and around the world and won over 40 awards and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction, Best Original Score and Best Cinematography. In 2019, the film was ranked the 51st in 100 best films of the 21st century list by Guardian.
Dulu Wang is considered one of the five greatest wuxia (which literally means ‘martial hero’) fiction writers of the Northern School in the Republican. He was less interested in writing about ruthless killings; instead he focused on his characters’ development, their emotions, friendship, and passions. Wang had great sympathy for women who suffered cruel oppression by the society and its feudal system, and his novels featured many strong female characters, warriors, and heroines. Most of his stories featured tragic endings. His perfect combination of chivalry, romance and tragedy in his novels have thrilled many critics and readers and this style have influenced many authors.
During 1925-1949 Wang published more 90 novels and thousands of articles and poems.
This book, Dancing Crane, Singing Phoenix, is Volume 1 of Wang’s Crane-Iron Pentalogy and was published in 1940 and edited and modified by Hong Wang in 2020.
More Wang’s books will be in the Collected Works of Dulu Wang series.
王度廬是中國著名的武俠言情小說作家，在上個世紀三四十年代曾發表过大量小說、雜文、詩詞等作品。《鶴驚昆侖》、《寶劍金釵》、《劍氣珠光》、《臥虎藏龍》、《鐵騎銀瓶》是王度廬創作的五部內容相互關聯，又各自獨立的武俠悲情小說，通常被合稱為’鶴-鐵五部’。2000年李安導演根據該系列改編的電影《臥虎藏龍》，曾獲得40多個國際電影大獎，並榮獲了第73屆奧斯卡最佳外語片等四項大獎。
《鶴驚昆侖》是’鶴-鐵五部’的第一部，原名《舞鶴鳴鸞記》，初載於1940年的《青島新民報》，後由上海勵力出版社印行，改題《鶴驚昆侖》。本部的英文書名係根據原名《舞鶴鳴鸞記》而譯，使之與其他四部書名對仗。
本社出版的《王度廬選集》，收入了王度廬先生的包括’鶴-鐵五部’在內的不同時期不同類型的部分作品，王宏並對其做了一些必要整理和訂正，該選集中的各部小說將在近期陸續出版。
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