Name Du Guangting | Role Fiction writer | |
Books Divine Traces of the Daoist Sisterhood: "Records of the Assembled Transcendents of the Fortified Walled City" | ||
Du Guangting (杜光庭) (850–933) was a Daoshi and fiction writer in imperial China's Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
His most famous work was a short novel entitled "The Man with the Curly Beard" (虯髯客傳), sometimes considered the earliest novel in the wuxia genre.
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