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Liang Yusheng (March 22 ^nd, 1924 to January 22^nd, 2009), originally named Wentong Chen, was born on March 22 ^nd, 1924, die at the age of 85 in Sydney on January 22^nd, 2009 because of illness. He is originally in Mengshan, Guangxi Province. He was born in a literary family in Mengshan, and had a good education, so he could write poems himself when he was young. After the victory of the War of Resistance of Japan, Liang went to Lingnan University in Guangzhou for further education for World Economic major. And he was lived in Hong Kong after 1949, and then he move to Sydney, Australia. He is a member of Chinese Writer Association.

Liang was so favorites in reading Kong Fu fiction novels that he always neglecting his meal and sleep when he was young. And when he grew up, he was still enjoying reading Kong Fu fiction novels. He likes to make many comments on Kong Fu fiction novels with others. His literary skills, rich historic knowledge, the love of reading Kong Fu fiction novels and the rich reading experience are the basics for his writing new style of Kong Fu fiction novels in the future. Yu Bai( originally named Zhuxin Gong) is Liang’s favorite novelist, it is said that the name Yusheng Liang is comes from the name Huiru Liang and Yu Bai. Liang is known as the initiating of the new style of Kong Fu fiction novel.

Xiong Yaohua(1937 – September 21, 1985), who wrote under the pen name Gu Long, was a Taiwanese writer of wuxia novels. He was born in Hong Kong and moved to Taiwan in 1950. Several of his novels were adapted to film or television, most notably The Eleventh Son which was adapted several times, including a 1978 film adaptation as the Shaw Brothers’ Swordsman and Enchantress. He began his own movie studio, Bao Sian, to further the adaptation of his novels.

It is not known when and where Xiong Yaohua was exactly born. Some say he was born in 1936 in Hong Kong, while other claimed that he was born in 1937 in Jiangxi, China.[2] In 1952, he moved to Taiwan with his parents who later divorced in 1956. After that, his life lost stability. With much help from his friends and also money earned from part-time work, he graduated from the Foreign Language Department of Tamkang University in Taiwan. He later found a job in the United States Army Advisory in Taipei.

It was a well-known fact that he was an alcoholic. In the early days of his career, he would buy several bottles of good alcohol and a big stack of new books whenever he received payment for a manuscript.

His major works:《The Vault of Heaven and the Sword of Divinity》、《Chu Liuxiang Series》、《Lu Xiaofeng Series》

Louis Cha, better known by his pen name Jin Yong, is one of the most influential modern Chinese-language novelists. Co-founder of the Hong Kong daily Ming Pao, which he started in 1959, he was the paper’s first editor-in-chief.

Cha’s fiction, which are of the Wuxia (”martial arts and chivalry”) genre, has a widespread following in Chinese-speaking areas, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the United States. His fifteen works written between 1955 and 1972 earned him a reputation as one of the finest Wuxia writers ever. He is currently the best-selling Chinese author alive; over 100 million copies of his works have been sold worldwide(not including unknown number of bootleg copies)

Cha’s works have been translated into Korean, English, Japanese, French, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Burmese and Thai. He has many fans abroad as well, owing to the numerous adaptations of his works into films, television series, manhua (comic books), and video games.

His major works:《The Deer and the Cauldron》、《Tian Long Ba Bu》