MIAO-SHAN
Creator: G. AM
Morris
Characters
Chow Lei
(Miao-Shan)
Master Sung
Wang Deshi
Aunty Min (Dress
Maker)
Moshan Liaoren
(Orphanage Nun)
Aunty Ah-Lam
(Cousin)
Aunty Hai-Ying
(Cousin)
Po Po
(Grandmother)
Colonel David
Reese-Jones (British retired, explosive expert)
Yen-Lo-Wang
(Triad Leader)
Shen (Mysterious
assassin/guarding Triad leader)
Chow
Lei had witnessed the triads murder her mother and father when she was ten
years old. She went to live with her grandmother Po Po, but joins a kung fu
school, where she is a quick learner. Master Sung suggest she attend the
Shaolin Temple in China, and she is sent there to study. Again, she learns
quickly, mastering the 18 kung fu styles by age 18. She returns to Hong Kong to
be with her grandmother, only to learn that the triads had murdered Po Po also.
Now using the name Miao-Shan she returns to Master Sung’s kung fu school and is
told where she might purchase a sword.
Whispering
Wind is the sword she is given, and it gives her immortality, eternl youth, superhuman
speed and strength. The sword maker, Wang Deshi joins her in her fight against
evil.
Miao-Shan
is now a goddess, and much offer compassion before death. Inheriting her
grandmother’s possessions, she is now a beautiful young millionaire. Becoming a
rich heiress by day, and black-clad deliverer of justice by night.
Wang
Deshi uses two swords, one he calls head chaser, the other tail chaser.
With
some of her money, Miao-Shan starts an orphanage and hires a Nun, Moshan
Liaoren to run it for her.
There
are several Triads in Hong Kong and China: Celestial Body Society, The Three
Harmonies Society, The White Lotus Society, and The Righteous Harmony Society.
Shen
is a mysterious assassin/guard for the head of the Triads. He belongs to an
ancient group more power than Ninjas, but no name is mentioned.
There’s
only been one novel so far, but a second novel is in the works.
“Miao-Shan: The
Awakening” (January 2019)
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