Han Song (writer)

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Han Song
Han Song1000x1000.jpg
Native name
韩松
Born1965 (age 5859)
Chongqing, China
OccupationEditor
LanguageChinese
Notable awards Galaxy Award (six times)

Han Song (韩松, born 1965) is a Chinese science fiction writer and a state journalist at the Xinhua News Agency.

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Life

Born 1965 in Chongqing, Han works as a journalist for the state news agency Xinhua. [1] His first short story collection, Gravestone of the Universe (宇宙墓碑) was published in 1981 in the Taiwanese journal Huanxiang. It waited ten years for publication in the People's Republic of China because publishers found its tone too dark. [2]

Han has received the Chinese Galaxy Award for fiction six times. The LA Times described him as China's premier science fiction writer. [3]

Work

According to the China Daily , Han describes himself as a "staunch nationalist at heart", and his work is critical of China's desire to Westernize as fast as possible: He believes that "fast-track development does not agree with core Asian values", and that adoption of the "alien entities" of science, technology and modernization by the Chinese will turn them into monsters. [4]

According to the Los Angeles Times, "if the author is critical of a cocky America, he is also unafraid to ruthlessly satirize an overreaching China." Most of his works are banned in mainland China. [3]

Bibliography

Novels

Han's novels include: [1]

Short stories

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References

  1. 1 2 "Han Song interview". Time Out Beijing . March 2011. Archived from the original on 21 April 2014. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  2. Aloisio, Loïc. "Ma Patrie ne rêve pas - Une nouvelle politiquement incorrecte de Han Song 韩松" . Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Sebag-Montefiore, Clarissa (25 March 2012). "Cultural Exchange: Chinese science fiction's subversive politics". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  4. 1 2 Basu, Chitralekha (18 March 2011). "The future is now". China Daily . Archived from the original on 22 March 2011. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
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  7. Han, Song. "Salinger and the Koreans" (PDF). guggenheim.org. Retrieved 2024-09-29.