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Banyunyou

Known by the pen name 半雲友, this Chinese author is remembered in modern catalogs for the novel 引鳳蕭. Very little biographical information appears to survive, which gives the work an added sense of mystery.

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引鳳蕭

引鳳蕭

by Banyunyou

About the author

Banyunyou is the romanized form used by Project Gutenberg for the author listed with the alias 半雲友. In the same record, Internet Archive also preserves the creator alias 楓江半雲友, suggesting a literary pseudonym rather than a fully documented personal name.

The author is associated in currently available library-style records with one work, 引鳳蕭, a Chinese novel that has been digitized by Project Gutenberg and mirrored by the Internet Archive. Public-facing catalog descriptions characterize it as a historical novel, but the surviving sources located here do not provide a clear, confirmed biography beyond the pen name and the book attribution.

Because reliable biographical details are so scarce in the sources found, it is safest to describe Banyunyou as an obscure Chinese author or pseudonymous writer known today mainly through 引鳳蕭 and its digital preservation.