Zou Bixian

Zou Bixian is the attributed author of Feituo Quanzhuan (飛跎全傳), a Chinese novel preserved in modern digital editions. Project Gutenberg identifies the book as Chinese fiction and describes it as likely written in the early 19th century, placing it in the Qing dynasty.

Very little reliable biographical information about him appears to be readily available in major English-language sources, so it is safest to treat him as a poorly documented historical author known mainly through this surviving text. That scarcity of detail is common for some older writers whose names are preserved more clearly than their life stories.

What makes Zou Bixian notable is the book itself: an inventive narrative centered on the character Shi Xintou, blending adventure, humor, and social observation. For many modern readers, his interest lies less in a fully known personal history than in the rare, distinctive voice his novel seems to preserve.