Wanchun Yu

Born in 1794 in Shanyin, Zhejiang, this Qing dynasty writer is usually identified by the Chinese name 俞萬春 (simplified: 俞万春). Sources describe him as a novelist who also followed his father on several military campaigns, experiences that later fed into the conflict-heavy world of his fiction.

He is most often associated with Dangkou Zhi (The Tale of Ridding the Bandits), a novel written as a response to the fame of Water Margin. Rather than celebrating the bandit brotherhood, the book takes a strongly opposing view and reflects the political attitudes of its time.

He died in 1849. Reliable portrait imagery was not clearly available from the page content I could confirm during this search, so no profile image is included.