Since her sister died young, Liang Desheng acted as a surrogate mother for her niece Wang Duan, who would become an editor.
Liang Desheng wrote the final three volumes of the tan-ci Zai sheng Yuan.
It was first published in 1821 and deals with the affairs of three families in the Yunnan province, during the early Qing Dynasty.
See the translation by Nancy Hodes and Tung Yuan-fang,[2] Ying Zou, "Crossdressing and other Disguises in Zaishengyuan," Late Imperial China 33:3 (2012) 119–153.
Li Guo, Women's Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth Century China, West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2015, chapter 1 "Envisioning a Nascent Feminist Agency in Zaishengyuan," pp.