Recently I did some research into the serialization of Wolong Sheng’s 臥龍生 wuxia novels in Singapore newspapers. Fortunately, Singapore’s newspapers are archived online, so anyone can go and look at any issue. So I looked up all the Wolong Sheng novels I could find in that archive, and below is what I found.

The most important discovery is that the novel Red Snow, Black Frost《絳雪玄霜》was actually published from Feb. 20, 1961 to Nov. 21, 1963 in Singapore’s Sin Chew Daily《星洲日報》. Bibliographies of Wolong Sheng’s works have always placed the date of publication at 1963, but there’s never been any details given about what month or where it was published. Turns out, the novel was a Singapore exclusive at the time. That’s probably why the earliest publication date up till now has presumably been when it was first published in Taiwan in book form (presumably 1963). But it’s actually an earlier novel than that.