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Zeng Zeng is a Chinese author about whom little public information is available. Four works are known under this name, falling mainly into two categories: war and military fiction, and social fiction. Representative titles include Secret Warfare in the Border Town, Looking South toward the Pearl River Estuary, Dragon War in the Taihang Mountains (Part Three), and The Story of Yan Shi. Judging from the titles and categories, the writing often draws on military operations and social life set against specific regional backgrounds, ranging from tense narratives of covert warfare in border areas to social scenes around the Pearl River Estuary and continuing with wartime writing set in the Taihang Mountains. The Story of Yan Shi leans toward social fiction, suggesting that beyond military themes the author also attends to ordinary people and social reality. Because reliable records of birth and death dates, nationality, education, and writing career are lacking, further biographical details cannot be supplied, and readers must come to know Zeng Zeng chiefly through these works themselves.