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Wang Dulu
Born	Wang Baoxiang 1909 Beijing, China
Died	1977 Tieling, China
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	Chinese
Genre	Wuxia
Spouse	Li Danquan

Wang Baoxiang (Chinese: 王葆祥; 1909–1977), courtesy name Xiaoyu (Chinese: 霄羽), better known by his pen name Wang Dulu (simplified Chinese: 王度庐; traditional Chinese: 王度廬), was a Chinese writer of wuxia novels. Wang is best known for his work, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, that was adapted into a successful feature film of the same title by film director Ang Lee in 2000.

Wang was born in 1909 in Beijing, to a poor family of Manchu background. He worked as an editor for a newspaper agency and as a clerk for a merchant association before becoming a writer. He lived through the New Culture Movement and the May Fourth Movement and began writing novels in the 1930s. Most of Wang's early works were of the detective and mystery fiction genres.

He started writing wuxia novels after moving to Qingdao. Between 1938 and 1949, Wang wrote 16 wuxia novels. In 1949, Wang stopped writing and became a school teacher after the Chinese Civil War ended. He was sent to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution and died from illness in 1977 after the revolution. At the time of his death, Wang had written more than 50 novels. Wang was married to Li Danquan and they had three children.

Li Danquan met film director Ang Lee during the shooting of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (an adaptation of one of Wang's works) in 1999.

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