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Pinghuazhuren

Known by the pen name Pinghuazhuren, this late Qing writer is remembered for "Jiuwei Hu" ("Nine-Tailed Fox"), a novel that has remained available through major digital libraries. Very little biographical information is firmly documented, which gives the work an added air of mystery.

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九尾狐

九尾狐

by Pinghuazhuren

About the author

Pinghuazhuren appears to be the pen name of a Chinese author from the late Qing period. Reliable library and public-domain book records confirm the name as the author of Jiuwei Hu (Nine-Tailed Fox), a Chinese novel that has been preserved and shared by projects such as Project Gutenberg and The Online Books Page.

Beyond that attribution, solid personal details are hard to verify from readily available reliable sources. Because of that, it is safer to describe Pinghuazhuren as a little-documented literary figure whose reputation today rests mainly on this surviving work rather than on a well-recorded life story.

That relative obscurity is part of the author's appeal for modern listeners and readers: the book survives, the voice is vivid, but the person behind the name remains largely in the background.