| Jhunge Cingyun
Jhunge's real name is Jhang Jiansin born in Xie County in
Shanxi Province in 1929. He graduated from Taipei Singjheng College (now known as the Law
College of Chunghsing University), and he once worked as a staff member in the President's
Office of ROC. He was an admirer of the earlier wusia novelist Huanjhu Loujhu, and he was
very good in classical Chinese. In 1958 he used Jhunge Cingyun as his penname to write
Mojian Shuangying, which continued the episode in Huanjhu Loujhu's work, Shushan Jiansia,
but he did not finish it. The next year he published two books, Zihdian Cingshuang and
Tiansin Cijian Dangcyunmo, and they were both very successful. Then he resigned from his
civil service work and became a full-time writer. And he was once as famous as Wolong
Sheng.
The protagonists in his novels are all talented young men
and beautiful girls, and the words used in his works are elegant. He started with such
writing style, and he kept this way for a long period of time. After the 70s, his new
works could no longer attract readers like his old ones did before. Until the 90s, he
wrote more than 60 books.
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