Gu Long
Gu Long | |
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Gu Long in the 1970s | |
| Born | Xiong Yaohua 7 June 1938 |
| Died | 21 September 1985 (aged 47) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Republic of China |
| Alma mater | Tamkang University |
| Genre | Wuxia |
| Notable works | Chu Liuxiang Series, Lu Xiaofeng Series, Xiaoli Feidao Series, Juedai Shuangjiao, Liuxing Hudie Jian |
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| Traditional Chinese | 古龍 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 古龙 | ||||||||||||
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| Xiong Yaohua | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 熊耀華 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 熊耀华 | ||||||||||||
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Xiong Yaohua (7 June 1938 – 21 September 1985), better known by his pen name Gu Long, was a Taiwanese novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director. Born in Hong Kong and educated at Cheng Kung Senior High School and Tamkang University in Taiwan, he is best known for writing wuxia novels, among which his best known works are Juedai Shuangjiao, the Xiaoli Feidao Series, the Chu Liuxiang Series, the Lu Xiaofeng Series, and The Eleventh Son. Some of them have been adapted into films and television series. In the 1980s, he started his own film studio to produce film adaptations of his works.