Read also: In Surakarta, Chinese-Indonesians heal old wounds for sake of harmonyĪ picture of Kho, who died in 1994, hangs on the main wall of the house, amid thousands of books ready for distribution. The company is located at the house where Kho used to live in a small alley in Gandekan, Surakarta. Bunawan Sastraguna, the oldest son-in-law of Kho Ping Hoo, is the head of operations.
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More than 50 years later, CV Gema is still in the business. In 1965, he founded CV Gema, a publishing house in Surakarta, Central Java, to help him produce and distribute the books. After his first success, Kho Ping Hoo set his eyes on martial arts stories. The stories became more popular when they were republished by Analisa magazine.
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His first foray into martial arts tales began in 1959 with The Heirloom Sword of the White Dragon, a series he wrote for Teratai magazine. His short stories appeared in local magazines, such as Liberty, Star Weekly and Pancawarna. He began writing in the 1950s, during his time in Tasikmalaya city, West Java. In his youth, he would often move from place to place and change jobs, from selling traditional medicines to providing transportation services. He also had a penchant for incorporating Chinese terms in his writing, a new insight for Indonesian readers.Īsmaraman was born in Sragen, Central Java, on August 17, 1926. He was especially celebrated for the ways he described each tale, character and the minute details of every weapon and clothing item. Throughout his career, he wrote 116 books of Wuxia stories and 24 books taking place in Indonesian kingdoms. His tales inspired movies, television series and radio shows. With the pen name Kho Ping Hoo, Asmaraman created some of the most famous stories in Indonesia in the 1970s and 1980s.
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The imaginary journeys of martial artists in ancient China, or Wuxia, were born out of Asmaraman Sukowati’s mind.
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On its pages, readers met Bu Kek Siansu and Kwa Sin Liong and followed them on their adventures on Mount Jeng Hoa San. But inside the book’s covers, ancient China appeared, a time when mighty warriors reigned. The cover was simple, with only two colors and bearing an illustration of a fight between Chinese warriors. The adventures began with a tiny, thin book.