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Wo hu cang long (2000)

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Yes. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon/Wo hu cang long is the fourth book in the Crane-Iron Pentalogy, written by Chinese author Wang Dulu [1909-1977]. The other four books, written between 1938 and 1942, include: (1) Crane Frightens Kunlun/He Jing Kunlun, (2) Precious Sword, Golden Hairpin/Baojian Jinchai, (3) Sword's Force, Pearl's Shine/Jianqi Zhuguang, and (5) Iron Knight, Silver Vase/Tieji Yinping. For more information on the Crane-Iron Pentalogy, see http://www.monkeypeaches.com/CTHD-F-Novel.html. As of 2007, no official English language translations of his novels exist. However, there is a manhua (comic book) series created by Andy Seto.

"Crouching tiger, hidden dragon" is a Chinese philosophy that refers to keeping your strength hidden from others and warns that, because of that practice, there is always someone out there who is stronger and better than you are.