Liang Yusheng
| Chen Wentong | |
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| Born |
5 April 1926 Mengshan County, Guangxi Province, Republic of China |
| Died | 22 January 2009 (aged 82) Sydney, Australia |
| Pen name | Liang Yusheng |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Genre | Wuxia |
| Notable works | see below |
| Liang Yusheng | |||||||||||
| Chinese | 梁羽生 | ||||||||||
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| Chen Wentong | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 陳文統 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 陈文统 | ||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Liáng Yǔshēng |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Loeng4 Jyu5-sang1 |
| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Chén Wéntǒng |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Can4 Man4-tung2 |
Chen Wentong (5 April 1926 – 22 January 2009), better known by his pen name Liang Yusheng, was a Chinese writer. Credited as the pioneer of the "New School" (新派) of the wuxia genre in the 20th century, Chen was one of the best known wuxia writers in the later half of the century, alongside Jin Yong and Gu Long.
Chen was born in a family of scholars in Mengshan County, Guangxi Province in Republican China. He was well versed in ancient Chinese classics and duilian and could recite the Three Hundred Tang Poems by the age of seven. He started writing poems when he was attending Guilin High School in Guangxi. He was tutored by Jian Youwen, who specialised in the history of the Taiping Rebellion, and Rao Zongyi, who was well read in poetry, humanities, art and the history of Dunhuang. Chen learnt history and literature from both of them. Later, he was accepted into Guangzhou's Lingnan University, where he graduated from in 1948 with a degree in economics. In 1949, he settled in Hong Kong and became an editor for the newspaper Ta Kung Pao and a member of its executive committee through the principal's recommendation. The following year, he worked as a copyeditor for another newspaper, Sin Wun Pao.
In 1954, Chen made a breakthrough in his career when he wrote his first wuxia novel Longhu Dou Jinghua to entertain readers in the light of an ongoing contest between two martial arts schools, which was the talk of the town that year. This marked the start of a "new school" of the wuxia genre, with Chen as its pioneer and the emergence of other writers such as Jin Yong and Gu Long. Over his career, Chen wrote a total of 33 novels, of which Baifa Monü Zhuan (白髮魔女傳) and Yunhai Yugong Yuan (雲海玉弓緣) are some of the better known ones. Many of his novels have been adapted into television series and films. As Chen was interested in history and literature, he also wrote columns, critiques and essays under different names, including "Liang Hueru" and "Fong Yuning".
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