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    Chinese Classic 'Condor Heroes' Takes Wing In English

    Jin Yong's wildly popular historical series Legends of the Condor Heroes has been adapted many times for Chinese TV, movies and comics, and now the first volume has been translated into English.
    by Alan Yu Mar 04, 2018 4 minutes
    <em>Legend of the Condor Heroes</em> features the kind of high-flying martial arts many Western audiences were introduced to by the movie <em>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.</em>

    In 2000, the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon introduced moviegoers worldwide to superhuman martial artists who could deliver a beatdown while balancing on bamboo or gliding across water.

    But those kinds of acrobatics were no surprise to Chinese audiences.

    In an early chapter of the popular Chinese novel , several characters in a tavern drink wine from a bronze cauldron that weighs more than 200 pounds ... by tossing it to each other. One person catches the cauldron with one hand; another holds out a walking stick with one hand and balances it like he's spinning a plate, tipping the stick slightly to send a stream of wine to his mouth; yet another jumps up and sips the wine from

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