The Patriot Yue Fei Editorial Photo

Yue Fei`s second biography, is a wuxia novel titled Shuo Yue Quan Zhuan was written by Qian Cai , who lived sometime during the reigns of the Kangxi and Yongzheng 1661–1735 emperors of the Qing dynasty.[10] A dating symbol in its preface points either to the year 1684 or to 1744.[11] It was banned during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor. There are two main versions of this novel in existence. The original one had 80 chapters. There was an illustrated edition of this version published in 1912.[12] The other version also had 80 chapters and was published during the reign of the Tongzhi Emperor 1861–1875. Starting in 1964 and finishing in 1995, Sir Yang Ti-liang, former Chief Justice of Hong Kong, current Chairman of the Hong Kong Red Cross, combined the first chapters of these works in an attempt to weed out the overabundance of supernatural elements to create a 79-chapter version with 961 pages, which he translated into English. It is currently sold under the title General Yue Fei