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Shen Dao is a Chinese author of wuxia fiction. Public information about him is limited: his dates of birth and death, nationality, and English name are not clearly recorded, and only three of his works can currently be confirmed. His writing centers on the wuxia genre, with representative works including The Lonely Swordsman's Journey through the Jianghu (two-volume set), The Swordsman Has No Tears, and The Last Knight-Errant of the Jianghu. The titles suggest a fondness for images of swordsmen, lone heroes, and the declining world of the jianghu, creating wuxia narratives with a bleak and desolate atmosphere that focus on the personal fate of knights-errant and the rise and fall of the martial world. Owing to limited material, details of his life, creative career, and influence are difficult to elaborate, yet these three works alone reveal a fairly consistent choice of subject and stylistic pursuit, offering readers who enjoy traditional tales of the jianghu a reading option worth noting.