Du Guangting

Du Guangting (杜光庭) (850–933) was a Taoist priest and fiction writer in imperial China's Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Du.

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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