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active 18th century Lang Chen
Known only through a surviving 18th-century attribution, this Chinese novelist is remembered for the long fiction work Xue Yue Mei zhuan ("Snow, Moon, and Plum"). The mystery around the name gives the book an added sense of distance and intrigue.
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雪月梅傳
by active 18th century Lang Chen
About the author
Very little reliable biographical information appears to survive about this writer. Major library and public-domain catalog records identify Chen Lang simply as an author active in the 18th century, without clear dates, a fuller life story, or securely documented personal details.
The work most consistently linked to this name is Xue Yue Mei zhuan (Snow, Moon, and Plum), a Chinese novel that has been preserved in later editions and modern digital archives. Because the record is so sparse, the author is best understood through the novel itself and through the long afterlife of the text in library collections rather than through a well-documented biography.
No verified portrait could be confirmed from the sources reviewed, which is not unusual for a relatively obscure early modern author whose historical record is fragmentary.