author
Zou Bixian
An early 19th-century Chinese novelist best known for the inventive tale Feituo Quanzhuan (often translated as Fly Tuo Biography), this writer is remembered today mainly through surviving editions of that unusual Qing-dynasty work.
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飛跎全傳
by Zou Bixian
About the author
Very little biographical information appears to be firmly documented about Zou Bixian. Available catalog and library records identify the author as a Qing-dynasty writer connected with Feituo Quanzhuan (《飛跎全傳》), a work generally dated to the early 1800s.
Modern references to Zou Bixian mostly come from digitized book catalogs rather than detailed biographies, which suggests the author is known today more through the text than through a well-preserved personal history. Project Gutenberg also lists the work under Zou Bixian's name, helping keep it accessible for modern readers.
Because reliable personal details are scarce, it is safest to describe Zou Bixian as a historical Chinese fiction writer whose reputation rests on a single distinctive surviving novel from the Qing era.