[4] The following titles are arranged in internal chronological order rather than by their publication date: Crane Startles Kunlun was written third, after Sword Force, Pearl Shine, and serialized under the title Dancing Crane, Singing Luan (Chinese: 舞鶴鳴鸞記).
[6] Ang Lee's 2000 film adaptation, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, included elements from other books in the Crane series, and also took liberties with the novel it was based on.
[7] In 2013, The Weinstein Company announced an English-language adaptation of Iron Knight, Silver Vase was in development, with Ronny Yu attached to direct.
[8] The film was later renamed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny, and principal photography began in August 2014, with Yuen Woo-ping as director.
After the Chinese Civil War, Wang was assigned to work as a school teacher by Communist leaders, who labelled him an "old literati".
[citation needed] Following his retirement, possibly around 1966, he was labelled a "reactionary literati", thus the Communist Party punitively sentenced him to farm labor.
[1] Prior to his death he made several attempts to return to his wife and family who were living in Shenyang.
[1] In 1999, Wang's widow Ms. Li Dan Quan met with Ang Lee and Michelle Yeoh during the production of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.