The Nine-tailed Turtle (traditional Chinese: 九尾龜; simplified Chinese: 九尾龟; pinyin: Jiǔ Wěi Guī; Wade–Giles: Chiu Wei Kuei, also translated as Nine-tailed Turtles, Nine-headed Turtle, or Nine-times Cuckold) is a novel by (?-1935), an author from Piling (near modern-day Changzhou). The novel centres around the life of a scholar named Zhang Qiugu, who leaves his wife to spend time with famous courtesans in China's pleasure districts.