Du Guangting

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Du.

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 writing was a short novel "The Man with the Curly Beard" (虯髯客傳), sometimes considered the earliest novel in the wuxia genre.


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