# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/liang-yusheng
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:49:51.910Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/liang-yusheng"
name: "Liang Yusheng"
slug: "liang-yusheng"
description: "Chen Wentong, better known by his pen name Liang Yusheng, was a Chinese-born Australian novelist best known for being a pioneer of the \"new school\" of the wuxia genre in the 20th century. Along with Jin Yong and Gu Long, he was one of the best known wuxia writers in the later half of the 20th century. Throughout his career, he published a total of 35 wuxia novels. The more notable ones include Baifa Monü Zhuan, Yunhai Yugong Yuan, Qijian Xia Tianshan and Pingzong Xiaying Lu. Some of them have been adapted into films and television series, including The Bride with White Hair (1993) and Seven Swords (2005)."
tagline: "Hong Kong writer (1924-2009)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/vps8ZK5cM0ifdrkl02NL7xhCi9D.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1924-04-05"
deathDate: "2009-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.08645533141210375
  historical:           11.711276
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1295635/"
    handle:    "nm1295635"
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    title: "梁羽生"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ليانج يوشينج"
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    title: "Liang Yusheng"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liang_Yu_Sheng"
    title: "Liang Yu Sheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "梁羽生"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Liang Yusheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Лян Юйшэн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "เนี่ย อู้เซ็ง"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Liang Yusheng"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump