After the KMT left for Taiwan in 1949, martial arts novels were banned on the mainland as "spiritual pollution," but there wasn't a day when newspapers in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore didn't include serial installments of martial arts fiction.
一九四九年之後，除了中國大陸因為視武俠小說為「精神汙染」而禁止外，港臺、東南亞地區的華文報紙，沒有一天不連載武俠小說。