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Title
The Novels of Two Anti-heroes: King of Killers and Hot Tempered Leung
 
殺人王·牛精良·好漢小說
Speaker(s)
Dr. WONG Chung-ming, Department of Journalism and Communication, Hong Kong Shue Yan University
Organiser(s)
The Centre for Humanities Research
Library
Date/Time
5 November 2012
1:30 p.m.
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5 November 2012
3:00 p.m.
Venue
2/F, Mini Theatre
Medium
Cantonese
Target Audience
Staff
Postgraduates
Undergraduates

三四十年代,任護花以周白蘋的筆名創造了兩條「好漢」:中國殺人王和牛精良。報上連載後出單行本,極為暢銷,直至五六十年代,影響力仍大。殺人王故事背景大都發生在海外,足跡遍及歐亞,專為受欺壓的華僑出頭,懲惡鋤奸,大快人心;但行徑和手段有時流於「邪門」,不全是「正義」所為。牛精良的故事背景為戰時香港和粵省一帶,本為黑道人物,打家劫舍,殺人不眨眼。後來不憤日軍陷港侵佔祖國河山,槍口一轉,成了游撃隊。

In 1930s and 1940s, Yam Wu-fa, in the pen-name of Chou Pai-pin, created two vivid anti-heroes in his works, King of Killers and Hot Tempered Leung. Yam's works were first published in literary supplements, and then turned into extremely popular books of fiction. The influence of his work even stretched through-out the 1950s and 1960s. The stories of King of Killers are mostly situated overseas. The hero's footrpints trailed through many parts of Europe and Asia. He speaks for the overseas Chinese and fights against the evil. But his fights are not necessarily "righteous", and sometimes even "dishonest". Hot Tempered Leung's stories were in the war-time Hong Kong and many places in Guangdong. Leung used to be a gangster, robber and merciless murderer. In hatred of the Japanese invation, he turns his gun on the Japanese and joins the guerrillas.