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Wuhangyeke

Known by the pen name Wuhang Yeke, this Qing-dynasty writer is remembered for a lively romantic novel that has continued to circulate in modern editions and digital libraries. Very little about the person behind the name is clearly documented, which gives the work an added air of mystery.

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駐春園小史

駐春園小史

by Wuhangyeke

About the author

Wuhangyeke, also written as Wuhang Yeke and in Chinese as 吴航野客 / 吳航野客, appears to be the pseudonymous author of Zhuchun yuan (also published as Zhuchunyuan Xiaoshi or 驻春园小史 / 駐春園小史). Sources available online identify the book as a Qing-dynasty Chinese caizi jiaren romance novel, and one reference places its publication in the Qianlong period in 1783.

Because the name is treated as a pen name and biographical information is scarce, not much can be said with confidence about the author’s life. What can be confirmed is the lasting presence of the work itself: library catalogs, Project Gutenberg, and other book archives continue to list Wuhangyeke as the author or compiler of this classic Chinese novel.

For readers today, Wuhangyeke is less a fully known historical figure than a literary signature attached to a surviving romantic tale from eighteenth-century China. That small trace has been enough to keep the name in circulation for centuries.