Luo Guanzhong (c. 1330-c. 1400) was a novelist and dramatist who played an important role in the development of Chinese popular fiction.
Moss Roberts is Professor of Chinese at New York University. He is the translator and editor of Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies (1979).
John S. Service (1909 - 1999) grew up in China and was a Foreign Service officer there from 1933 to 1945.