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Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng

Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng, “the laughing scholar of Lanling”, is the pseudonym under which the novel circulated; the only clue it gives about the author is his origin, the district of Lanling, in present-day Shandong. Britannica regards him as an unknown author of the Ming period. Arthur Waley proposed the playwright Xu Wei, others the high official Wang Shizhen, Li Kaixian, Tang Xianzu or, in 2011, Bai Yue; the regularity of the style would suggest a single hand.

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