China

ZHANG Baichun

Zhang Baichun, Professor at and Director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute for the History of Natural Sciences (IHNS). His research area mainly focuses on the history of science and technology in China, especially the history of machinery, mechanics, knowledge dissemination and technology transfer. He is the editor-in-chief of Chinese Annals of History of Science and Technology.

HAO JINGFANG

Hao Jingfang is an author and a researcher. Hao graduated from Tsinghua University in 2006 with an undergraduate degree in physics, and she later attained her PhD in Economics and Management from the same university in 2013. She worked as Deputy Director of Research Department I in China Development Research Foundation from 2013 to 2018. She was a visiting fellow at Harvard Kennedy School in 2018. Her research projects during those years include The Coordination of Big City Groups in China, The Rise and Fall of Great Nations, The Labor Market in the Era of Artificial Intelligence, and The Structure of Research and Innovation in China, etc. Hao started to write novels in 2006, and she won “The Best Novelette” award for her short story “Folding Beijing” at the 74th World Science Fiction Convention.

BAOSHU

Baoshu is a freelance science fiction and fantasy writer. He has published five novels and dozens of shorter works since 2010, including Three Body X: Redemption of Time , Ruins of Time (winner of the 2014 Chinese Nebula Award for Best Novel), Seven States of the Galaxy: Phantom From an Ancient Empire, "Everybody Loves Charles" ( the 2015 Galaxy Award for Best Novella) etc. He lives in Xi’an, China.

Di Cui

Di Cui is an assistant professor at the School of Journalism in Fudan University. He got his PhD degree at the School of Journalism and Communication in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include journalism and political communication in the digital transformation of China.

Fang Wu

Fang Wu is an associate professor at School of Media and Communication in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She received her PhD degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her recent studies consider the implications of new communication technologies for public communication and youth culture.

Yishu Mao

Yishu Mao is a pre-doctoral fellow of Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. As a member of the research group “China in the Global System of Science,” her research focuses on the interactions of scientific standards and practices with societal values and ethical principles in China’s quest for AI. Yishu has previously worked as an analyst for China’s digital policies, society and media at Mercator Institute for China Studies. She holds an MA in global studies, a BA in literature and digital humanities, and has studied in Germany, India, Argentina, the US and China.

GAI Fei

Gai Fei, courtesy name Shifei, is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy at Yunnan University and Director of the Department of Chinese Philosophy and Ethics. A specialist in Daoist philosophy and Daoist religion, Fei’s research focuses include Daoist esoteric practices, belief in celestial beings, and the philosophy of Zhuangzi.

Zhang Feng (Pen name “Sanfeng”)

Sanfeng is a science fiction researcher, visiting researcher of the Humanities Center of Southern University of Science and Technology, chief researcher of Shenzhen Science & Fantasy Growth Foundation, honorary assistant professor of the University of Hong Kong, Secretary-General of the World Chinese Science Fiction Association, and editor-in-chief of Nebula Science Fiction Review. His research covers the history of Chinese science fiction, development of science fiction industry, science fiction and urban development, science fiction and technological innovation, etc.

CHEN QIUFAN

Chen Qiufan is the founder of Chuanmao Culture, science fiction writer, screenwriter, translator and curator. He is the deputy director of the Science Fiction Committee of China Science Writers Association, Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Xingyun (Nebula) Awards for Global Chinese Science Fiction, and a member of the Jiu San Society. He has won many domestic and foreign awards such as the Nebula Award, the Galaxy Award, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Award. His works have been translated into over 20 languages. He is the first Chinese writer to publish articles in many European and American science fiction magazines. His representative works include The Waste Tide, The Algorithm for Life, Mutation Engine, etc.

Jing Zeng

Dr. Jing Zeng is a senior research and teaching associate at the Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland. She received her PhD in Media and Communication from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and her MSc from Oxford University. Jing’s research interests include science communication, internet studies, and computational methods. Her works have been published in numerous top-ranked (Q1) international journals. Partnering with the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin, Jing is a key investigator in an international project that researches AI imaginaries in Europe, the US, and China. This 3-year project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG).

QIU Anxiong

Qiu Anxiong is considered a pioneer in deepening the resonance of animation by introducing the aesthetics of ink painting. He interweaves his ink-wash style paintings with the animated world and inserts architecture and signs from Shanghai where he lives, cinematic effects mimicking Hollywood movies, and symbols from pre-modern Chinese ink painting.

Wu Yan

Wu Yan is a professor and PhD supervisor at the Humanities Center of Southern University of Science and Technology. He is a science fiction writer, vice chairman of the China Science Writers Association, recipient of the Thomas D Clareson Award of the American Science Fiction Research Association, and co-founder of the Xingyun (Nebula) Awards for Global Chinese Science Fiction. He is the author of science fictions such as Adventure of the Soul and The Sixth Day of Life and Death, academic works such as Outline of Science Fiction Literature, and textbooks such as Science and Fantasy - Training Course for Youth Imagination and Scientific Innovation.

FEIDAO

Feidao is a science fiction writer and holds a PhD in literature. He is an associate professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University. He is the author of the collections of short stories Chinese Science Fiction Blockbusters, Long Journey to Death, etc. Moreover, he published academic articles in journals such as Science Fiction Studies, Literary Review, and Dushu. His works have been translated into English, Italian, Japanese, etc.

WANG YAO（PEN NAME “XIA JIA”）

Wang Yao, writing with the pen name Xia Jia, is the Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Chinese Literature at Xi’an Jiaotong University. Her academic work on contemporary Chinese science fiction, Coordinates of the Future: Discussions on Chinese Science Fiction in the Age of Globalization, was published in 2019. Seven of her stories have won the Galaxy Award, China's most prestigious science fiction award. So far, she has published a fantasy novel Odyssey of China Fantasy: On the Road (2010), as well as three science fiction collections The Demon Enslaving Flask (2012), A Time Beyond Your Reach (2017) and Xi’an City Is Falling Down (2018). Recently she has been working on a science fiction fix-up, entitled Chinese Encyclopedia. Her works have been translated into many languages. Her first novel written in English, Let’s Have a Talk, was published in Nature in 2015. Her first English collection A Summer Beyond Your Reach: Stories was published in 2020.