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General Yue Fei
 General Yue Fei (Chinese: 說岳全傳) is a Chinese historical novel written by Qian Cai in the Qing dynasty. Consist of 80 chapters, the first 61 chapters detail the life and adventures of Yue Fei, while the last 19 concern the exploits of Yue Fei's son Yue Lei after Yue Fei's unjust death. DescriptionThe author Qian Cai (錢彩) lived sometime during the reigns of the Kangxi and Yongzheng (1661–1735) emperors of the Qing dynasty.[1] A dating symbol in its preface points either to the year 1684 or to 1744.[2] It was banned during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor. There are two main versions of this novel. The original one had 80 chapters. There was an illustrated edition of this version published in 1912.[3] The other version also had 80 chapters and was published during the reign of the Tongzhi Emperor (1861–1875). Some people mistakenly take this novel to be historical fact when it is purely fiction.[4] According to Sir Yang Ti-liang's introduction to his translation:
English translationStarting 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 was published by Joint Publishing in 1995.[5] Major charactersProtagonists
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