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多情劍客無情劍 Kindle Ø Paperback 古龍Xiong Yaohua Chinese 熊耀華 June – September better known by his pen name Gu Long was a Chinese novelist screenwriter film producer and director Xiong is best known for writing wuxia novels and serials which include Juedai Shuangjiao Xiaoli Feidao Series Chu Liuxiang Series Lu Xiaofeng Series and Xiao Shiyilang Some of these works have been adapted into films and television series for numerous times In the s Xiong started his own film studio Bao Sian to focus on adaptations of his works He graduated from Cheng Kung Senior High School in Taipei and from the Foreign Language Department of Tamkang UniversityXiong was born on June in Hong Kong but his registered identity claimed that he was born in His ancestral home was in Nanchang Jiangxi China and he lived in Hankou in his childhood He moved to Taipei Taiwan in with his parents who divorced in With help from his friends and using the money he earned from part time work to fund his education Xiong graduated from the Foreign Language Department of Tamkang University He found a job in the United States Army Advisory in Taipei laterIn Xiong published his first wuxia novel Cangiong Shenjian 蒼穹神劍 under the pen name Gu Long From to Xiong published eight novels but did not achieve the results he desired He moved to Ruifang Town 瑞芳鎮 and lived there for three years after which he changed his perspective and adopted a new writing style Between and the late s Xiong rose to prominence in the genre of modern wuxia fiction for his works As the sole representative of excellence in the wuxia genre from Taiwan for an entire decade Xiong was named along with Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng as the Three Legs of the Tripod of WuxiaWhile he was still in university Xiong lived with a dance hostess Zheng Yuexia 鄭月霞 and had a son Zheng Xiaolong 鄭小龍 with her However later he started a relationship with another dance hostess Ye Xue 葉雪 who also bore him a son Ye Yikuan 葉怡寬 Shortly after that Xiong met a senior middle school graduate Mei Baozhu 梅寶珠 who became his first legal spouse and bore him his third son Xiong Zhengda 熊正達 Xiong's extramarital affairs with other women caused him to break up with Mei laterIn the later part of his life Xiong suffered from depression and the uality of his works declined rapidly He had to employ ghostwriters to co write many of his later works because of his ailing health He died on September at the age of due to illness wrought by alcoholism namely cirrhosis and esophageal hemorrhage at around pm Xiong's friends brought him bottles of XO at his funeralXiong was said to be influenced not only by wuxia fiction but also by the works of Ernest Hemingway Jack London John Steinbeck and Friedrich Nietzsche His novels are usually made up of short sentences and paragraphs and mostly dialogues between characters like a play scriptIn contrast with Xiong other writers such as Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng take an alternative route in writing wuxia fiction incorporating Chinese history culture and philosophical ideas in their works Xiong initially intended to follow them but changed his decision after exposure to western works such as the James Bond series and The Godfather novels The influence of these works which relied on the idiosyncrasies of human life razor sharp wit poetic philosophies mysterious plots and spine tingling thrills to achieve success enabled Xiong to come up with a uniue way of writingsource wikiGu Long and Khu Lung are the same person the latter is the Hokkien pronunciation in Indonesia.