author
Banyunyou
Known by the pen name 半雲友, this Chinese author is remembered for the historical novel Yin feng xiao (引鳳蕭). Little biographical information appears to survive, which gives the work an added air of mystery.
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引鳳蕭
by Banyunyou
About the author
Very little confirmed personal information is readily available about Banyunyou. Public catalog and ebook records consistently identify the name as the author of 引鳳蕭 (Yin feng xiao), and Project Gutenberg lists 半雲友 as an alias.
The surviving work is usually described as a Chinese historical novel, with modern library and ebook records connecting it to late imperial fiction traditions. Readers coming to Banyunyou today are most likely to encounter the author through digital editions, which have helped preserve a text that might otherwise remain hard to find.
Because reliable sources offer almost no clear details about the writer's life, birthplace, or dates, it is best to treat Banyunyou as a little-documented literary figure known mainly through this single attributed novel.