Liang Yusheng is a pen name; his real name was
陈文统, and he came from Guangxi. Working at a Hong Kong newspaper, he began serializing 《
龙虎斗京华》 in 1954, after a much-talked-about fight between two martial-arts masters in Macau, and so started the "new school" of wuxia that
金庸 soon joined.