Biography
Wang was born into a poor family in Beijing of Manchu background. He worked as an editor for a newspaper agency and as a clerk for a merchant association before becoming a writer. He lived through the New Culture Movement and the May Fourth Movement and began writing novels in the 1930s. Most of Wang's early works were of the detective and mystery fiction genres.
He started writing wuxia novels after moving to Qingdao. Between 1938 and 1949, Wang wrote 16 wuxia novels. In 1949, Wang stopped writing and became a school teacher after the Chinese Civil War ended. He was sentenced to farm labour during the Cultural Revolution and died from illness in 1977 after the revolution. At the time of his death, Wang had written a total of 30 novels. Wang was married to Li Danquan and they had more than three children.
Li Danquan met film director Ang Lee during the shooting of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (an adaptation of one of Wang's works) in 1999.
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