"Body, Again" ranked the top 1 best-seller of Shanghai Translation Publishing House during the Shanghai book fair! Check out the English report on the book: www.china.org.cn/2025-08/20/c...

"Body, Again -- SF Anthology of Chinese & Korean Female Writers" is officially launched in China, after its successful launch in Korea! Newly written stories on "body" from Kim Choyeop, Cheon Seonran, Kim Cheonggyul, Cheng Jingbo, Zhouwen, and me🥳🤩😘

My article "Growth, Resource, Population: The GRP Triangle in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction by Female Writers" is finally out in Science Fiction Studies! My first time to be published by SFS! online.ucpress.edu/sfs/issue/52/2

I had a fun chat with Synthesized Sunsets on Chinese SF and The Way Spring Arrives. Check it out! synthesizedsunsets.substack.com/p/xviii-chin...

I am so happy and honored to be awarded the 1st prize for Future Writer Award! I got the trophy from the famous writer Qiu Huadong and publisher Huang Yuhai. A great many thanks to East China Normal University and the judging panel!

I am so honored that my story "The Island and The Human" just won SF Planet Award for Best SF Short Story! May all human beings, non-human beings, carbon-based organisms and silicon-based consciousnesses breathe with our planet and share our CoFutures!

I got my PhD diploma in our conferral ceremony today! Thanks for all the love and gifts!

So looking forward to our "Korean & Chinese writer talk: The SF world of the East" on Nov 30! The language will be Korean and please register by Nov 28 via: bit.ly/3OeD9zm

Hope Wang Anyi Laoshi's writing can reach more readers!

Speculative fiction/media/culture conference CFP! Confimred keynote speaker include Sherryl Vint. The conference is planned as in person, but the organizer is investigating into opportunities for limited online panels. More details here: forgottensf.wordpress.com/call-for-pap...

Had a lovely time in Frankfurt for both the Book Fair and BuCon! Happy to see the German version of my second story collection THE SEAFOOD RESTAURANT, and wonderful to be surrounded by book-lovers!

Had a wonderful time in Berlin! A great many thanks to everyone I met, especially Lise Meitner Research Group at MPIWG and BerlinBCCN, Kapsel, Otherland Bookstore & C*Space. So happy to have "Zhurong on Mars" pubished by Kapsel in German and Chinese, with canvas bag, soundtrack, and even a cake!

I'll visit Germany next week to celebrate the publication of my stories in German - "Zhurong on Mars" by Kapsel and THE SEAFOOD RESTAURANT by Drachenhaus Verlag - and talk about Chinese SF! Lecture, readings, and discussions in Berlin, Frankfurt, Dreieich, and virtually Potsdam

More thanks and reflections and pictures will come later, but I am officially a doctor! Surrounded by all the love and supports today!

This seems like an awesome event for anyone in Berlin: "Cosmic Futures: The Universe of Chinese Contemporary Science Fiction" with @reginakanyuwang.bsky.social Regina Kanyu Wang" on Oct 15, 10-12:00 berlincontemporarychinanetwork.org/events/detai...

Check out this amazing event on ESEA speculative fiction on this coming Sunday, co-organized by the wonderful @yenooi.bsky.social ! britishfantasysociety.org/events-calen...

Looking forward to seeing you all in Berlin!

I don't know what happened but I am getting a lot of new followers here today. Thanks and here are some...sheep pictures! Making new friends at the end of the Oslo summer <3

Best end-of-summer reading: Laozi's DAO DE JING translated by Ken Liu, with his own words on Laozi, translation, and more.

Lots of memories and happiness from this summer: @glasgow2024.bsky.social and Perifacon in Sao Paulo!

Finished my last bit of urgent work (to be announced soon!) during my transfer from Phoenix, Arizona to London, now waiting for the boarding gate to show. Next stop: Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon For Our Futures! @glasgow2024.bsky.social

20 days, 3 countries, 4 cities, we did amazing work in Salvador, Sao Paulo, Bogota, and Tijuana for The CoFutures Confluence 2024: CoFutures Literacy. Love and thanks to all participants, on-site hosts, UN Global Pulse, and my foxhole buddies Patrick, Jomy, and Joel! #CoFutures

Yay! So looking forward to that!

The programme for #Glasgow2024 a Worldcon #ForOurFutures is released! I will chair an academic roundtable, moderate a panel, and attend another one, plus the autographing and table talk. Details attached (I love how it is showing my system language in Chinese and current local time in Bogota!)

You still have time to vote for the Hugo Awards until this Saturday, 20th July! Among all the other amazing finalists, please consider voting for Journey Planet in the Best Fanzine Category. Check all the issue here: www.journeyplanet.org Thanks for your consideration!

Happy to announce that I will be on program at @Glasgowin2024 along with a fantastic crew! glasgow2024.org/whos-coming/... I am also a @TheHugoAwards nominee as part of the Journey Planet team for Best Fanzine. Don't forget to vote for Hugos before July 20! glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/...

Had a wonderful ACCL conference in Hong Kong and a wonderful panel on "Conceptualizing Posthuman Bodies" with Emily, Dingru and Kiara. Thanks to Prof. Mingwei Song, Liu Jianmei, Jannis Jizhou Chen and all staffs for the organization and Carlos Rojas for chairing our panel!

My story "A Record of Lost Time", translated by @rfkuang.bsky.social , is included in We're Here: The Year's Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2023/edited by Darcie Little Badger&Charles Payseur @neonhemlock . Full TOC: www.neonhemlock.com/news/cover-r... Preorder: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

I have contributed a review of Kim Choyeop's novel The Greenhouse at the End of the World for Korean Literature Now. Thanks to Shaoyan Hu for the translation! kln.or.kr/magazine/mag... The issue features SF from South Korea. Check out here: kln.or.kr/magazine/mag...

On Jun 7, I attended the launch of female themed books edited by Zhang Li - "Hold the Pen, Make the Light." Besides essays from female artists, the book includes answers to gender view from 21 Chinese female writers born in 1990s, including me. It's lovely to see everyone!

On Jun 2, we celebrated the 15th anniversary of creative writing MFA at Fudan University as well as the honorary retirement of Prof. Wang Anyi, who taught us fiction writing. Being a business school graduate and a SF fan, I wouldn't start my writing journey without the MFA!

And on Monday, I had the pleasure to listen to Monika Bielskyte's brilliant talk on Protopia, and had a panel conversation with her, Marta Tveit, Einar Sneve Martinussen, and moderated by Anders Bettum!

Just gave a talk on "Amidst the Aftermath: SF Narratives on Survival and Sustainability in Extreme Environments" at ETH Prague 2024! ethprague.com

It's such a lovely experience to be a SFeraKon GoH! I want to thank all staffs and volunteers of the con, who made it a great event! Especially to Mihaela who kept me company, Ivan who secured sponship for my trip, Anita who put me on program, Zvonimira, Vanja, and everyone!

It's only 5 days till SFeraKon! Cannot wait to visit Zagreb and see many Croatian fans there! I will be giving a talk on the herstory of Chinese SF, and be on a panel on translating Chinese SF. Check out the full programme here! sferakon.org/program/

I have the honor to write a preface for the April 2024 issue of Women of China magazine and publish it on the World Book Day today. The topic is reading in AI era and I love the picture chosen by the editor! mp.weixin.qq.com/s/lIFGC09wp8...

In March, I attended "The Cultural Logistics of Chinese and Sinophone Science Fiction-Science Fiction International Conference 2024" at University of Fribourg in Switerland and "The Image of China through The Science Fiction Genre" at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia in Italy.

CoFutures welcomed Mingwei Song, Yan Feng, Wu Yan, and Li Guangyi, top scholars of Chinese science fiction for a workshop! We shared knowledges on our research and practices. More future collaborations to come!

Finally back to Oslo. Did I have time to watch Netflix series 3 Body Problem? Of course not, but Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen interviewed me for some background information: klassekampen.no/artikkel/202... Thanks to the journalist Endre Ugelstad Aas! Note: not all quotes and opinions are mine.

I'm so happy to join @sferakon 2024 as a Guest of Honor! I've been invited to many cons, but I think it's my first time to be a GoH myself? So excited and looking forward to that! Hope to see many Croatian fans in Zagreb, 10-12 May this year! sferakon.org/2024/predsta...

In the two weeks after my submission, I have attended 1 workshop in Oslo (also as the organizer!), 1 conference in Fribourg, and 1 roundtable in Venice. I will post about them later, but now, huge congratulations to all 2024 Hugo nominees! www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history...

Thank you so much for your feedback!

I submitted my PhD dissertation! Three years net time incubated the 300-page article-based thesis, plus 3 edited books, a few other publications, a bunch of awards or nomination, and countless talks/lectures/presentations/panels. Will talk more about what it's about when I can!

Happy Women's Day! How will time acceleration tech impact our life, society & environment, especially for women? My story "A Record of Lost Time" translated by @rfkuang.bsky.social is eligible for Best Novelette in Hugo nomination that ends tmr! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-re...

Please consider to nominate for Hugos before Mar 9! My eligibility: Novelette: "A Record of Lost Time" translated by @rfkuang.bsky.social (time acceleration tech can be useful now!) www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-re... Fanzine: Journey Planet (as co-editor of 1 issue) journeyplanet.weebly.com

And the story is also eligible for the Hugo nomination, which is ending on Mar 9! Thank you so much for your consideration! (I am so far behind schedule on eligibility post lol)

Nebula nomination ends on Feb 29! "A Record of Lost Time" by me is eligible as a novelette. Translated by @rfkuang.bsky.social and published in @lightspeedmagazine.com , it's an oral history of marginalized groups in the global crisis of time acceleration. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-re...

On Mar 25 – 26, I will attend The Cultural Logistics of Chinese and Sinophone Science Fiction: Science Fiction International Conference 2024 in Fribourg, Switzerland. Looking forward to sharing ideas with an amazing group of participants! sfunifr.com

Thank you so much for the recommendation and thanks to @rfkuang.bsky.social for the wonderful translation! The story can be read or listened to (with Stefan Rudnicki's amazing narration) here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-re...

My story "A Record of Lost Time", translated by Rebecca F. Kuang, published in Lightspeed Magazine Nov 2023. Please do consider it for various award nominations! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-re...