Liang Yusheng


Chen Wentong , better known by his pen name Liang Yusheng, was a Chinese writer. Credited as the pioneer of the New School 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 in Guangxi Province. 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 Guangzhous 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 principals recommendation. The following year, he worked as a copyeditor for another newspaper, Sin Wun Pao.

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